Showing posts with label Sensory Play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sensory Play. Show all posts

Sunday, 29 July 2012

Small World Play ~ Construction Zone

Master E is right into Imaginative Play at the moment and is often roll playing. With a love of all things construction and vehicle related I set up this small world play for him and of course Miss M!

We started with a large low sided tray which I filled with our Rainbow rice (this has been the basis of many play sessions, usually cooking!) Here is the link on how to make the Rainbow Rice. I then added a few construction vehicles a digger, some dump trucks and trailers.

There was a lot of filling and emptying going on.

We filled up all the trailers and drove them around the construction sight.

Master E found it hard to scoop the rice up with the digger and enjoyed the sensory experience of using his hands.

Once Miss M decided to join in we found that we were short of vehicles so we added in some workers. Who apparently needed a rest! Miss M then decided we needed to have planes and helicopters too!

Miss M busy filling up a trailer.

The digger was busy "Digging a BIG hole!" There has been a lot of construction work near our house along the railway lately, so we have had lots of opportunities to watch what the construction vehicles are doing which made for some great role play and conversation.
Like with our other Small World Play there was a lot of play generated from this activity more than half an hour (a long time for my almost 3 year old and almost 2 year old). 

We did plan this one well and placed a plastic mat underneath the tub for an easy clean up of any spills.  This was very popular and as will all our rice activities the rice was packed away to be used again soon!

Monday, 30 April 2012

Rainbow Rice Sensory Play

A couple of weeks ago I made up some Rainbow Rice for Sensory Play. Last week on a cold and wet morning we got around to using it!

Here is what we started with, baking dishes, whisks, measuring spoons and cups, colander, wooden spoon, two big tubs and of course the rice!

Miss M and Master E took great delight in mixing the colours up and running their fingers thought the rice, I have to admit it felt great.

Filling the colander to shake the rice out.

Plenty of pouring. Thr rice made a great sound hitting the bottom of the baking tin.

Master E with his caaaakkkkkeeee!
Measuring.

Miss M loved stirring.

Filling up the muffin tin.
Mmmm cake, stir, stir, stir! 
Spooning.

A bit more measuring.
This is so much fun!
Miss M decided we needed a dinosaur. He had lots of rice to eat. Num, num, num.

The dinosaur is still eating, greedy dinosaur!
Another cake! (we ate so much cake that day!)
Pour, pour, pour.

Funnels are the best trumpets.

The funnels were added later and were a huge hit. They loved watching the rice pour though the bottom.
Master E and Miss M had so much fun with this Sensory Play cooking. Master E played for over an hour and was so busy. We used lots of new measurement words and had a great time. A little tip we used a mess mat underneath our play to collect as much of the spilt rice as we could. This made it easy once the containers got low to top them back up.

Thinking this will be a regular Sensory Play experience at our place!

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

Thursday, 12 April 2012

Rainbow Rice for Sensory Play and Craft

I've been meaning to make rainbow rice for some time. Today while both my monkeys were asleep I finally got around to it, and now we have some beautiful rainbow rice for sensory play and craft fun!

It is so easy.
You will need
Rice ~ I used cheap long grain rice from Aldi
White Vinegar
Assorted Food Colouring



The plain white rice ready to be coloured. This is one cup.

I added one tablespoon of the white vinegar and a few drops of food colouring, stirred it through and this was the result.

I poured the rice onto lined baking trays to dry. I made sure I rinsed the container before creating a new colour.

All of our rainbow rice drying outside ready for some sensory play.