Butterfly Life Cycle Sensory Tray
BB’s nursery was meant to be looking at butterflies during the summer term. His teachers sent through videos of the caterpillars they had and how they were transitioning into butterflies. They also sent through...
Construction Sensory Tray
Summer is a great time to be playing with water and running around outside. Unfortunately for us, water play and running around is off of the books at the moment. Instead of having sensory trays with water and ...
Naturally Dyed Play Dough
We love to make play dough; I love to play with it while it is still warm. Over the years we’ve made lots of different themed ones mainly using powdered paint or food colouring to dye them. This time I have bee...
Farmyard Sensory Tray
The weather has been pretty shocking as of late. Today I feel that we have had 4 seasons in a day; we started with snow, which turned to rain, then perfect sunshine, and finally it was blowing a gale by this af...
Calming Beaded Strings for Anxious Children
These calming beaded strings aren’t my idea in any way. I was asked to make them by Leo after Dr Maryhan Baker talked about them in the podcast they did together on how to raise well-behaved children and why yo...
Winter Animal Sensory Tray
A few years a go I made a cloud dough sensory tray. Well, it is time to get it out again, this time it’s a winter animal sensory tray.
Make sure you follow my sensory board on Pinterest for more ideas. Don’t...
Exploring Magnets: A Sensory Tray
This exploring magnets sensory tray was inspired by BB when he was playing with a train set. He had discovered that a magnetic pen would attach itself to the magnetic couplers on the train. He was fascinated by...
Frozen Inspired Play Dough Invitation to Play
The new Frozen 2 movie comes out this Friday! In honour of its release we have been playing with this Frozen inspired play dough invitation to play.
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Exploring Light Treasure Basket
We do love getting the light box out every now and then. BB was asking for it just the other week. This time I thought I would go a little bit further and create an exploring light treasure basket to go with it...
Chickpea Sensory Counting Tray
Over the last couple of weeks BB has suddenly started counting. He tries hard to count items correctly, sometimes he will do it perfectly, most of the time he doesn’t. Not that that matters. He is only 2 after ...
