Have you ever thought how kids explore the world around us!!
By their senses.
Touching,
Smelling,
looking,
Hearing and Tasting.
These are the 5 sensory skills which plays a very important role for brain development.
Sensory Play Meaning
Sensory play activities stimulates all the senses to help brain development. Through which a child can understand how world works. It also promotes motor development.
There are two types of motor skills
Gross Motor Skills
It involves coordination of hands and legs, for example running, jumping, crawling & object control like catching, kicking.
Fine Motor Skills
Which involves smaller movements of fingers, feet, toes. For example picking up an object, writing, holding a spoon.
So basically sensory play activities are fun learning experience for kids. It keeps them engaged and also helps them to concentrate and come up with strategies to get the job done.
This was my take on sensory play for toddlers. You can come up with many sensory play activities using day today objects.
Sensory play does not have to be messy, there are many sensory play ideas you can find on our page on Facebook and Instagram.
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