Today we’re demonstrating how to dye hay for sensory play and crafts. It’s eco-friendly, inexpensive, and reusable. Hay or natural wood excelsior is a filler generally used for decorating baskets or flower arrangements. But, it’s also a wonderful non-food sensory material that sculpts, glues, and absorbs colors quickly and beautifully. Continue reading
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Today we’re creating raspberry foam dough bunnies using loose parts. Our invitation to create and play explores sensory, imaginative play, and build-a-bunny fun. We’ve made snowman foam dough and shamrock foam dough in the past, but never scented. Can you tell we love foam dough play?! Continue reading
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Today’s invitation to create and play explores loose materials, hidden shapes and tracing, and classic foam dough. Our shamrock foam dough is soft, fragrant, and uses just 3 simple ingredients – cornstarch, shaving cream, and green food coloring. We added shimmering gold glitter and shamrock goodies to complete our easy-to set-up St. Patrick’s Day activity. Continue reading
Papier Mâché, french for “chewed paper,” is an inexpensive, fun way for kids to create sculptures. This safe, easy-to-make paper mache recipe for kids uses just a few basic kitchen supplies and whips up in less than 2 minutes. Ripping paper provides sensory stimulation for kids as well as the cool, goopy textures of paper mache glue. We adore these paper mache crafts for kids. Continue reading
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Grab a barrel full of old-fashioned pop with the frothy, full-bodied textures of root beer and vanilla play dough! Remember A&W root beer floats as a kid? Today’s invitation to create with homemade scented play dough explores creamy textures, classic sensory play, and rich scented sweetness. Continue reading
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Whew! It’s a hot day on the desert! Our desert small world includes animals, plant-life, tumbleweeds, and moldable sand cloud dough! Continue reading
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Na-na-na-na BATMAN! Let’s start the new year off with a POW! – superhero style! My son is really getting into superheroes, so homemade sparkly play dough and matching bags seemed perfect for his party! Making homemade stencils is inexpensive, easy, and fun! Plus, you can use the stencil for other creative projects! Plus, printable tags and stencil are included! Continue reading
Welcome to our last post in our Sensational Winter Sensory Play Series! I’m teaming up with the wonderful and super-talented Frogs Snails and Puppy Dog Tails to bring you fun, sensory-related winter activities in November. So far we’ve explored the Antarctic Sensory Iceberg with small world play and Build-A-Snowman Foam Dough play! Today, we’ll be making Scented Rice Sticky Christmas Tree. We will be linking to each others posts, so please stop by Jaime’s page too! Links will be at the bottom of each post. Now, let’s dive into our scented rice activity!
