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Polka dot soup
Easy and colourfull activity. What you need: bingo chips; kitchen utensils; water, plastic box and towels. Do make note of choking hazard so please supervise if the child is not old enough.
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Tracing patterns
An easy time killer play with some sort of therapeutical effect for our little one. Tracing various patterns with small colourful toys, buttons, legos or other similar things you have in the house. We used snowflake building pieces.
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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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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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Scrach & draw animals book
What a good buy! It has rainbow and foil scrach-off pages with a wooden pen. You are supposed to follow the outline of the animals to reveal the page beneath. Good to use with a coin as well. It has a little description about each animal and at the end of the book you have…
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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…
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Real snow sensory bin
If you get some snow outside and done playing out in the fresh air, but the kids are still excited you can bring some in the house. Get a scoop or a dust pan and put some snow in a box. Add their favourite toys or some of the arctic plastic animals. Get them to…
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Juice carton house
Here is what to do with an empty carton of juice – a small house. What you need: an empty box of juice; paints; scissors and some tape. Make some doors and windows for the house and a larger hole at the back for play space. You can also separate the levels with the carved…
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Fishing with magnets
This play idea reminds me of my brother. We used to play this game together a lot. It must be the easiest game to set up ever and it’s great fun. What you need: a big magnet taped to a string on a stick; coins (1 penny & 2 pence will do); a bowl or…
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Edible snow (snow version 1)
What you need: White flour; Warm water; Snow animals figurines (seals, penguins) Large plastic sheet or a tuff spot tray (cement mixing tray); Additional protection for the floor (tarpaulin sheet). Not much explaining needing for this activity, but plenty of cleaning after so do make sure you put loads of protection on your floor. I…