Sensory Play. Stimulating children´s senses. Activity with pasta!

Sensory play is any activity that stimulates children´s senses. It helps children to develop and improve their gross and fine motor skills, coordination and concentration. It also provides an opportunity to use their senses to discover and explore their environment, develop their imagination and creative thinking. 

Let´s review the five senses of our body :)

Let´s sing!

Next video is made by one of the preschool teachers showing a sensory pasta activity! It´s great!!! :D

 SENSORY PLAY ACTIVITIES (FIVE SENSES)

1. Hearing

2. Smell. Let´s play!

- Get five boxes or bags. Put one of these things in each bag: chocolate, shower cream, lemon juice or orange juice, cereals and strawberries or raspberries. Then, put a tape on your chil´s eyes. He will have to guess what is in the bags only guiaded by his sense of smell :D

3. Touch. Let´s play!

- Place a few boiled spaghetti in a bowl and put paint on them. Let the child play freely with the texture. 

4. Sight. Celery Absorbing Colored Water experiment!

- Fill five vases with water and the child adds food coloring to each. He carefully places a stalk of celery. Leave the celery in the vases for three days and tracked the progress often. Children will be delight to see the colors change :D

5. Taste. The three apples taste!

- Cut the three apples into small pieces. Put the pieces of each apple on a different plate. The child will notice the difference of the taste of each apple. The child will let you know which one liked him the most :)

INFORMATION ABOUT SENSORY PLAY 

Benefits of Sensory Play to Brain Development and activities(click here)

Emotions and feelings :D. How do you feel? Experimentation of different types of emotions

We sometimes feel comfortable emotions like happiness, exciting, calm, but in other times we can experiment other feelings that are not very satisfactory for us, such as sadness, fear, anger or even confusion. However, all these feelings are ok, if we sometime do not feel sad, we cannot really know how the feeling of happiness is like.  

Vocabulary of feelings

Why do we have feelings?

Let´s sing! :)

Next video is made by one of the Preschool Teachers. It shows the reading of a book called The Colour Monster (book about the emotions). The book is represented in a type of theatre called Black Light Theatre. This Teathre was done in the Autonomous University of Madrid by Irene and her classmates. :D

The Colour Monster Song :)

Inside Out Thriller 

Inside out Best moment :D

Inside out 2 Best moment :)

FEELINGS GAMES

Guess how he feels

1. This treehouse makes me feel comfortable (click here)
2. Help makes us feel proud of ourselves (click here)
3. Hair Salon Game. How do you feel when you wash or brush your hair?(click here)
4. Monsters Colouring Pages (click here)

Psychomotricity. Physical activities to promote these two areas: psyche and motoric.

Psychomotricity is the relation between psyche (mental process) and motoric (physical activities). Children really enjoy doing different activities of psychomotricity. And it´s very easy to find an activity where children can promote these two areas of their development. 

This video is made for the children by one of the Preschool teachers

Let´s sing!

Walking in the jungle

To do psychomotricity activities we do not need, necessarily, to use materials, just dancing or moving one part of your body we are working out our psysical and mental area. 

Let´s do some exercise! :D

GAMES 

1. Colour different cars (Click Here)
2. Big Cats Jigsaw (Click here)
3. Jigsaw for kids (click here)
4. Kids Block Puzzle (click here)
5. Memory Cards Game (click here)

With all these games, children are developing their fine motor skills at the same time they are promoting their mental area thinking and using their eye-hand coordination.