Sensory Play Activities for 6 months – 4 years (For Groups or Individuals)

Description

Why Incorporate Sensory Play

Sensory play is a wonderful way to engage children in fun learning. Some of the benefits for children include:

• improvement of fine and gross motor skills
• increasing spatial awareness skills
• engaging creativity
• practicing social skills
• introducing literacy and language skills
• helping calm frustration.

Sensory play is open-ended and child-led. Encourage children to explore where they feel comfortable, and if they love a particular station, let them stay there and play. If a child runs from station to station and back again, that’s great too. The important part is to let the children lead, explore, create, and – most importantly – play.

Our Let’s Get Messy! Sensory Play Activities is a 4-week activity plan that provides ideas for 6 stations per week (plus bonus stations you can include every week). Please feel free to use all of the station ideas or some of them. Mix and match the stations, if you’d like. Also, caregivers can use this plan at home, in schools, in daycares, etc. It’s great for individual children, siblings, friend groups, and classes.

More Resources

For more sensory play resources, please check out some of our blog posts:

16 Sensory Activities for 1-2 Year Olds

How to Run a Playgroup for Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers

One of the most important things to remember when teaching young children is PLAY IS HOW KIDS LEARN. If the kids in your care are playing, you’re doing something right! Our sensory play guide is meant to provide an easy guide for providing kids with new ways to play, new experiences to explore, and new sparks for creativity.

Your Feedback

Please comment with your feedback about the Let’s Get Messy! Sensory Play Activities. We’d love to hear the ways you used our product, as well as see your littles learning and playing! Please tag us on Instagram (@learnplayread) or email us at info@learnplayread.com

I can’t wait for you to play, learn, and grow with the little ones you love!