We have been using our senses to help us learn and have enjoyed getting messy in the process! We have been having fun playing in our rice pit running the rice through our fingers and watching it bounce and make noises, we thought sounded like rain. It felt cold and smooth as we played with it. We have also been making volcanos with vinegar and bicarbonate soda. We thought that the vinegar smelled yucky but we liked how it fizzed and frothed as it exploded. We have been playing with paint and loved squishing and squeezing it through our fingers and rubbing it up our arms, making hand and arm prints in the process. During the cold weather we froze water and once frozen and hard put it in the water tray and spent a long time playing with it as it melted in our warm hands, it felt very cold and wet. Last week we began to dry slices of fruit to make decorations for our natural sensory Christmas tree. We have also made popcorn which we have threaded together to make garlands. It smelled so nice when we cooked it we just had to eat it! Our tree looks and smells great.
