As much as we love sensory play, play doughs are an area we haven’t really explored a great deal. This is mainly due to Buddy’s determination to eat everything in sight! Traditional home made play dough has a reasonably high salt content, so I was really eager to tap into the fantastic minds of the Kid…
We love a good sensory bin in our house and as Buddy gets older his engagement with them has definitely improved. Sensory bins can be used to teach textures, seasons, colours, numbers…. the possibilities are endless. You can read a great post about the purpose of Sensory bins over at Suzy Homeschooler. What is the Point…
Recently we have been enjoying lots of activities that involve scooping and dumping to help Buddy to develop his spoon control. He has an excellent grasp when using a spoon and he knows exactly where it needs to go, however his excitement and natural boisterousness often leads to the food ending up on the ceiling, carpet, fireplace…
Buddy is an absolute pro at feeding himself with his hands and we are fortunate that he is not a fussy eater. His spoon control is however somewhat lacking. To help him to improve on this we have been doing lots of activities that require him to scoop and dump. This will (hopefully) help him…
I’m totally embracing the changing seasons this year and I have been itching to try new sensory plays with Buddy that incorporate the Autumn theme. Fortunately we had some spaghetti left over from our Rainbow Spaghetti Play that looked like the perfect base for an Autumnal Sensory Discovery Bin. How we made our Autumn Fall…
Slime, Gak, Ooze or Oobleck. Whatever you call it Slime is FUN! Fortunately for me we can now play with slime because the wonderful Asia at Fun at Home with Kids invented a super duper Edible Slime. We couldn’t wait to get stuck in! You can find the recipe and instructions for Edible Slime on…
Things have been pretty busy around here this week as we have been preparing for Buddy’s first birthday! However, we still found time today for a super fun sensory play with Edible Rainbow Spaghetti. We got this idea from Asia at Fun at Home with Kids. This lady is a genius when it comes to…
We had lots of fun discovering flour this week. I have wanted to see what Buddy would do if he was let loose with flour for some time and I finally got my answer! Setting up Play This play is so easy to set up. I used our big sensory bin and tipped the flour…
After having fun with our Edible miniature Water Beads we pulled out our other new experiment, creatively dubbed Large Edible Water Beads. This idea was suggested to me by the lovely Multicraftingmummy via twitter. I was quite excited about it and ordered the ingredients as soon as possible! I decided to do this one as…
If I could sum up today in one word, that word would be MESSY, which is one of our favourite words around here! I have wanted to try edible water bead play for some time after feeling thoroughly inspired after reading this post by Asia at Fun at Home with Kids. Safe Edible Non-Chokable Mini…
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