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Welcome back for another Hands On Play Party. If you are a regular here, you know just how much we love sensory play. I thought it would be really fun to gather up some of my favorite sensory play ideas. Sensory play is a vital part of growing and learning and extremely important in developing healthy sensory integration in all children. It can be messy, clean, edible,and scented, but most of all, FUN!
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Sensory play includes any activity that stimulates your young child's senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Sensory activities and sensory tables facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Spending time stimulating their senses helps children develop cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally, physically and creatively.

Sensory bins, activities and materials allow children the opportunity to use all of their senses to explore ideas and concepts that might be too abstract for them to understand without the tactile experience.

You can encourage hands on play by using sensory play to enhance a story, to explore a science concept, to encourage language development,or to practice academic skills as an alternative to paper/pencil methods. You can even use sensory play as a way to enhance a theme or unit study. Like I said before, the possibilities are endless!

The possibilities are endless. You can encourage sensory play through sensory bins, activities, or even in the garden and around the house. While sensory play does not have to be set up and managed with fancy materials, it can be fun and inviting to set up invitations for your children to join in the play. By adding color and variations to the sensory materials, you make the activity more inviting while integrating senses even more. Below are some of my favorite sensory play ideas I have seen recently.

Messy Sensory Play Ideas

Non- Messy Sensory Play Ideas

Rainbow Rice
Rainbow Rice Noodles and Light Table Play
Rainbow Colored Beans
Rainbow Colored Hay

Edible Sensory Play Ideas

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