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- Learning through the senses --- ideas for all ages - Children learn through their senses- the smell, touch, taste, sight and hearing. Practitioners should aim to incorporate the various senses throughout their rooms with all age groups of children. For the sense of touch- there are fun ways to bring them into your room. Babies- - Fill paint pots (blue with the holes in the lid) with various textures- the babies will be able to touch but not taste them. - Add sensory baskets with various materials such as silk, velvet, cotton etc - Sensory play with water, edible paint, foods(pasta, spaghetti), and Custard, beans, jelly. Toddlers - fix small picture frames to the wall, remove the glass and add squares of materials the frames. you can add sandpaper- rough, velvet- fluffy, silk- soft, tinfoil (glue rice to the back of it)- bumpy. - Add a square of sticky back plastic (used to cover school books) to the window and leave a small variety of materials for the child to stick on. - Sensory play with playdough, gloup, flour, clouddough, paint, sand, water, custard. Pre-school age - Develop squares of textures and stick them to the wall something similar as the picture frames for the toddlers. - Make different shapes using the sticky back plastic, and add the shapes to the material boxes and ask the children to add the corresponding shape to the window for example squares, circles. - Sensory play with magic soap, water, sand, pasta/ rice (dry and cooked), grass, straw, paint. **Sensory or tactile boards can also be created- see pic for some ideas!
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 09:21:44 +0000

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