Our First Group Sensory Play Date
Yesterday, I told you all about how I set up our messy play space in preparation for our first group sensory play date. If you missed that post, you can read all about it here. This post is all about the fantastic messy memories that were created! The children had so much fun!
Sensory Play Party for Kids
As soon as we let the little ones loose in the play area, they went running! Several of them ran to the construction site. It was definitely a favorite!
Exploring the color and light center. All the little ones loved this!
While we were setting up this station, my husband had a great idea. Make a small light box using an empty storage container and a tap light! This turned out so neat!
One with the lights out to further illustrate just how well this light box worked!
We filled the container with water beads, leaving enough room to place
the tap light on top, facing towards the water beads. Tap the light on,
place the lid on, turn it upside down, and there you have it! An
amazingly easy, hand held, light box. This was a great way for the
little ones to explore the water beads.
Looking at water beads on top a flash light. This also worked like a mini light table.
The children loved looking at each other through the magnifying glasses
Searching for sea life
Jewel really liked playing in the pasta
We included the babies as much as possible. We only let them play in the more baby friendly areas, closely supervised.
Time for some snake slime!
The toddlers reactions to the snake slime was so funny! Most of them
found it quite gross, and wouldn't go near it. It was as if they
thought the snakes were real. I am going to make another Jello dig with
something more appealing, and compare their reactions. Rosie was the
only toddler that really dug in!
YUM!
What was so funny was that the babies loved the Jello dig. This
activity really emphasized the cognitive differences between the
toddlers and the babies. Babies have no clue what a snake is, and so
they dug right in!
I had covered the GOOP,
and saved it for the end of the play date. GOOP is so messy, and I
wanted to be able to repurpose a lot of the materials used to create the
other stations. I brought out two bins of goop, and put a few drops of
food coloring in each one.
This little guy loved the GOOP
So did Rosie and this little one
I really think Rosie would play in GOOP everyday! Whenever we are exploring with GOOP, she plays for such a long time!
Who can blame her though. This stuff is so neat!
When we were all done playing, it was time to clean up! The little ones loved helping!
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