How to Make a Bean Table
As a daycare provider, one of my favorite activities for rainy days, or any other day for that matter, was letting the kids play with a simple homemade bean table. Bean tables provide toddlers and preschoolers with a great sensory activity and can be incorporated into a variety of preschool themes by adding props to them.
Shaving Cream Puff Painting
Preschool art is all about the experience rather than the end result. This open-ended sensory art project for toddlers is a wonder summer art project for children of all ages. The simple supplies needed for this summer craft are likely found around the home, making it perfect for busy moms who want to fit in a quick art project without making a trip to the store.
Gingerbread Playdough
Preschoolers will love this festive touch to traditional play dough. The wonderful gingerbread scent of this play dough adds an additional dimension to this sensory play activity and helps preschoolers to celebrate the holiday season.
Shaving Cream Letters
Preschoolers love to experience the world with all their senses. Sensory activities are a wonderful way to teach valuable educational concepts to preschoolers. This preschool literacy activity encourages preschoolers to practice writing their letters and numbers by making it fun. Why use a crayon and paper when you can write in shaving cream?
Preschool Sensory Activity – Create a Feel Box
Preschoolers love to experience their world through touch. Using a feel box can help preschoolers to practice identifying objects only using one of their five senses. This fun preschool guessing game is a wonderful addition to a circle time routine or it can be used as a calming activity for active preschoolers.
Preschool Sensory Activity – Insta Snow
Shake things up a bit by providing preschoolers with a sensory experience that goes beyond the traditional materials like play dough and sand. Celebrate winter by letting preschoolers play with Insta-Snow. This powder will mesmerize preschoolers as they watch it turn to snow right before your eyes just by adding a little bit of water.
Edible Play Dough for Toddlers
Sensory experiences are a wonderful way to teach toddlers about the world around them. It gives toddlers the opportunity to use their sense of touch to explore new materials, but if you have ever spent more than five minutes around a toddler you know that it’s only a matter of time before whatever they are playing with ends up in her mouth. Edible play dough is a great way to give toddlers the freedom to enjoy an educational and developmentally stimulating activity, without having to worry about what will happen if they eat the play dough.
