Tag: sensory play
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Shaving Cream Cupcakes (bakery project 8)
Today we made cupcakes. Cupcakes with shaving cream. We love combining sensory exploration with art. These two things go together so well and at this time and age when kids are afraid to get their hands dirty, it is something we try to do as much as we can. We started with shaving cream and…
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Snowy Days at Preschool
Yet another snowy day at school. It is grey and rainy outside but it is January… and it January we love exploring snow. Kids usually get to the mountains over the weekend – skiing, sledding, tubing or just building a snowman. They always come back and tell us all about their adventurous and are eager…
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Slime Paint
It seems that there are more and more kids that would benefit from some form of sensory integration therapy. I have a lot of kids this year that are bothered by the sound of the fan in the bathroom, taste of anything unknown, touching anything messy or sticky, physical touch of their classmates… or they…
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Sensory Walk
I went to the Zero Landfill Seattle event couple of weeks ago and scored all these amazing treasures! It is a priceless (and yes, free) event where designers give away all of their old samples to artists, craftsman and teachers. I brought two wagons and filled them all! First thing we did was a sensory…
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Slime Exploration
Who would not like slime? It’s fun to make it, color it and then squeeze it, cut it, pour it, paint with it, measure it, pull it, etc. The limit is only your imagination – meaning in our classroom the uses are limitless. This year we decided to follow three different recipes. Slime 1 cup…
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Dress for Mess
At our school kids get messy. One of the first things we say to new parents is: dress for mess, aprons are optional, we play in mud and we get dirty. Every day. A lot. Every year we have kids that love getting muddy, wet and dirty and kids that don’t. Funny thing is though,…
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