Home Sensory Play: Learning Through the Five Senses

Activities that stimulate the five senses – touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing – enable your child to have fun while exploring 
and learning from the world around them. 

Sensory play can help your child: 

• Relax when they’re frustrated on anxious by moving their attention to a mindful activity.
• Build important fine and gross motor skills. 
• Develop communication, social, cognitive and problem-solving skills. 
• Enhance memory function. 
• Learn new concepts such as wet, dry, cold, hot, smooth and rough. 

Sensory Play Ideas 

These sensory play activities are simple to set up and plenty of fun: 

• Mud, sludge, bubbles, slime, kinetic sand and Play-Doh. 
• Sensory boxes/bins filled with different food or non-food related tactile objects. 
• Homemade miniature muddy farms, beaches, parks or duckponds. 
• Rainbow rice and pasta. 

Check out these wonderful sensory play ideas from our friends at Storypark. 

Play-Doh Recipe 

Play-Doh is an all-time favourite sensory play activity for little ones and something you can quickly whip up at home. 

What you need 

• 1 cup of flour 
• 1 cup of water 
• ½ cup cooking salt 
• 1 tbs of cooking oil 
• 1 tbs of cream of tartar 
• Food colouring