Sensory Play

Sensory play is an important part of your child's development. Children learn about the world around them through their senses. From the time they are born they use all their senses to discover and understand their environment. Providing opportunities to learn through touch, smell, sight and listening all helps them process and organize their mind.

Sensory Play is also very calming, it helps them regulate their discomforts. If you want your child to calm down, offer them something to focus on in a sensory table or bin. Redirect your child when they are loosing control to a sensory activity and you will see them relax. This technique works really well at school when they are scared and shy.

Sensory play also helps children build their fine motor skills. Fine motor skills are needed for writing, cutting, shoe-tying, drawing and painting. Most activities in the sensory table/bin involve pinching, pouring and holding small items and placing them carefully.

The sensory table is one of my favorite things to use in a class room. I enjoy playing in the sensory table and I believe children of all ages would enjoy it too.