Over the summer, and even a couple times in early fall my daughter and I would get out our sensory box. Its filled with things to make fake snow, play with slime, floam, moon sand, kenetic sand, and all sorts of nets, bowls, and other things to put it all in.
My daughter had gotten to when she loved to play with it, and dip her hands in it all. She’s typically very particular about what’s on her hands though. Anyway the most sensory like activity we’ve done in awhile is play with Play-Doh. We recently got some gooie slime and my little girl wouldn’t even touch it! That’s when I realized I definitely needed to make a point to start really getting back into our sensory experiments.
I love having themed days with my daughter, such as the Lunch With Mommy Mondays, Sonic Saturdays, Fun Friday, etc. Sensory activities just seemed to fit into our Saturday afternoons, maybe take about and hour and get messy (and then clean of course).
So, that’s what we decided to do, Sensory Project Saturdays! For our first sensory Saturday we played with some of the runniest slime I’ve ever seen in a bowl with a lil spoon.
Then we did a project with kenetic sand similar to that of our mystery shellsproject over the summer. With this one we played with the boxy girls and their accessories. We would hide the accessories inside the sand and then my little girl would dig them out. We even packed them into and ice cube trays to make little cubes.
This was a simple bonding activity, with little prep since we have all over our sensory stuff in one box. It also does soooo much for kids who are sensitive to different textures on their hands. Do you have a day of the week you can turn into your “Sensory Saturday”?
