Happy Sea Calendar Week Position Out Sensory Play For Kids
December 18, 2018
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This calendar week nosotros are hosting Ocean Week! Each summertime I similar to pick out themes as well as create our ain "Camp Mom" during the weeks when nosotros don't conduct maintain trips or camps scheduled.
Yesterday nosotros shared a super slow as well as fun tape resist clown fish arts and crafts (and giveaway from Trunki).
Today nosotros are sharing an sea themed sensory activeness nosotros did spell also practicing some reveal recognition.
Here are the materials you lot demand for our Ocean Week Number Sensory Play for Kids...
- large plastic tub
- water (enough to create total the tub 3/4 of the means full)
- shaving cream
- food coloring (green as well as blue)... or liquid watercolors
- foam sea shapes
- Sharpie
- plastic sea animals* (optional)
- large ziploc bag
Just to interruption the activeness downwards for you... hither are the skills that each of my kids were focusing on for this activity...
Toddler (20 months old)- learning the names of the unlike sea animals (crab, fish, sea star, etc.)
Preschooler (3.5)- identifying each number, beingness able to listen me tell a reveal as well as and then beingness able to notice that number, counting the foam sea shapes
Kindergartener (6)- identifying each number, counting past times 10s, putting the numbers inward firm from 10-100
Here's how nosotros laid upwards our Ocean Week Number Sensory Activity...
We started off past times writing number's we've been learning on our foam sea shapes.
Next nosotros created some blue/green foam using nutrient coloring as well as shaving cream as well as a large ziploc bag. The kids had fun mixing the colors to create a sea light-green colored foam.
Next nosotros added some H2O to our large plastic tub as well as and then nosotros added our foam shapes to the H2O as well as nosotros added a lilliputian flake of our sea foam to the H2O too.
The kids started mixing the H2O as well as sea foam together right away as well as had the best fourth dimension exploring the foam sea animate beingness shapes as well as other sea animate beingness toys nosotros seat inward the water. They also talked most the numbers spell they explored.
Later on large kids hunted for numbers that I called out or that they wanted to notice spell my littlest i simply search for sea animals as well as adept maxim their names.
Please banker's complaint that past times using nutrient coloring you lot may acquire some color transfer on wearing clothing or hands. We didn't acquire real much, but my hands did acquire a lilliputian green.
My 2 oldest kids had a groovy fourth dimension working together to seat the numbers inward firm from 10-100. My oldest boy (6) would tell my immature adult woman (3.5) which reveal to notice as well as and then he'd accept it from her as well as purpose it to seat the numbers inward firm (skip counting past times 10 from 10-100).
It was truly cute to meet them working together.
They also simply enjoyed playing alongside our sea animals, acting out scenarios, as well as also simply mixing as well as splashing inward the water.
Safety alongside Shaving Cream:
Shaving cream play is ever a lot of fun, specially when H2O is involved. I ofttimes acquire asked most younger kids playing alongside shaving cream as well as whether or non it is safe.
As alongside all activities I percentage on my site, each parent/educator needs to create upwards one's heed for themselves what they experience comfortable doing as well as what they don't desire to do. I experience completely comfortable letting my toddler play alongside H2O as well as shaving cream because I am sitting correct adjacent to him the entire fourth dimension giving him my consummate attention. I also know that he won't seat the shaving cream inward his oral cavity because he is moving out of that stage. If your kid nonetheless regularly puts things inward his mouth, you lot may desire to relieve this activeness for when he is out of that stage. All toddlers are unlike hence spell I would never conduct maintain done this activeness alongside my immature adult woman (who alone latterly stopped putting everything inward her oral cavity some historic catamenia 3), my boy (age twenty months) doesn't appear to conduct maintain an consequence alongside trying to swallow sensory items (other than when nosotros are paradigm alongside do-a-dot makers).
If you lot aren't certain if your kid is gear upwards for this form of sensory activeness yet, endeavour it! You'll know pretty rapidly :) Your kid powerfulness truly surprise you lot as well as live hence engaged alongside their other senses that they won't fifty-fifty mean value to brand the activeness an oral one.
If you lot are worried most pare sensitivities, brand certain you lot purpose shaving cream for sensitive skin.
Others who conduct maintain felt that the odor of shaving cream bothered them conduct maintain also used children's foam lather instead. That could also live fun!
I conduct maintain heard many many arguments against the purpose of shaving cream inward activities for children as well as I loved this post, called the Infamous "Shaving Cream" article, disputing many of the typical reasons people tell they won't purpose shaving cream alongside kids. Check it out. It has a lot of groovy data if you lot experience similar reading it.
Do you lot conduct maintain whatsoever other favorite sea themed activities you lot tin percentage alongside us? Head on over to our Ocean Week landing page to meet the other activities we've shared this week.
Don't forget to caput over as well as enter to win a PaddlePak backpack for your lilliputian explorer!! There are nine unlike paddlepaks to pick out from as well as all of them acquire along perfectly alongside our sea calendar week theme!!