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Cornflour & water play
Great sensory play idea. Water and cornflour. It’s sticky and goes hard on the outside. Really interesting texture and safe to be tasted.
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Tarpaulin play
Super easy idea with a tarpaulin cover. I use it to protect the floor when doing messy play at big gatherings. You can use this as a big parachute, hiding place or just on the floor for some noisy fun play. Works with any age really. Add soft toys on top or just fluff it…
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Edible muddy puddles play
Easy messy play idea and totally edible. Muddy bin with cars, animals or Peppa figurines. What you need: yogurt and cacao for mud; construction cars (or chunky cars if the bin is for a toddler); farm animals or other plastic figurines. Mix some yogurt for with cacao to make the mud and add all the…
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Glitter & coloured salt snowflakes
Great winter activity suitable for a wide range of ages. Wat you need: A printer to print some snowflake patterns; PVA glue; Fine table salt; Glitter; Small paint brush an ice tray to mix the paint; Liquid watercolours or normal paints disolved in a bit of water. Follow the contour of the snowflake with a…
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Oats play – discovering textures
Baby safe and dead easy activity. A bowl of dry oats and one of mushy oats. You can add food colouring if you wish, for a more sensory experience. Give baby a few scoops and spoons and protect your floor. It gets messy!
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Ocean gelly baff treasure hunt
Here is another use for the gelly baff which is supposed to go in the bath. As mentioned in a previous post I don’t like it in the bath and it is quite hard to manage in large quantities. What you need: Gelly baff; Plastic ocean animals (or you can replicate idea with anythibg you…
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Paper weaving
I spent ages as a child paper weaving. I had lots of fabulous ready made kits and ended up with creations like the one enclosed. I could not find anywhere sets like this and ended up cutting one myself. My little one coloured it and finished it all by herself with a bit of frustration…
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North Pole tuff spot (snow version 3)
I have a few snow tuff spot articles presenting different ways to make pretend snow. This uses shaving cream and jelly baff. What you need: aluminium foil for lake; blue jelly baff made with ice cold water (link below); a tube of shaving cream; arctic animals; reusable ice cubes (cold from the freezer); cotton wool…
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Gingerbread house for Peppa Pig
We made this at Christmas and my little one still likes to play with it now in January. She never let me put the roof because she wanted to use it as Peppa’s house. All you need is a gingerbread house kit and some plastic figurines. We like Peppa and pricesses at the moment.
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Sensory play – emergency heat blanket
All you need is a survival blanket. They are gigantic and super cheap. This is the first sensory material I have used with both of my girls and they loved it. You can use it for tummy time and or give it to them to play if they grasp and hold. Do not leave child…