“The ice is cold. It’s melting when I pour the water on it.”<\/em><\/p>\n“I can smell chocolate and coffee.”<\/em><\/p>\n“I am squeezing it. It’s frozen. The heart is melting.”<\/em><\/p>\n“I\u2019m pouring it. Look! It has bubbles.”<\/em><\/p>\n\nDid you know ?<\/strong>
\nSensory play activities naturally encourages children to explore and investigate through their senses: touch, smell, taste, movement, balance, sight and hearing.
\nHands on sensory activities can be set up at home using a variety of sensory materials found around the home or garden.<\/p>\nA few ideas to try at home-<\/strong>
\nGo on a walk and encourage children to explore textures in nature
\nClose your eyes and listen for sounds in the home or outdoors
\nCooking activities or tasting new foods
\nMessy play using materials such as mud, water, sand or paint.<\/p>\nSome of the benefits of Sensory Play-<\/strong>
\nStimulates the senses
\nDevelops muscles in hands and arms
\nDevelops creativity
\nAwareness of shape, space and measure
\nLanguage development
\nMark making
\nExperimenting and sharing ideas
\nDeveloping relationships
\nCan be a calming experience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The children have been making potions, adding, mixing and pouring a variety of liquids and solids during their sensory play. During their sensory play the children are developing a range of skills and processes such as problem-solving, enquiry, experimentation, researching and investigating. “The ice is cold. It’s melting when I pour the water on it.” … Continue reading Sensory Play<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,279],"tags":[455901],"class_list":["post-5476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ex-arts","category-sci","tag-sensory-play"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/Glenwood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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