Sensory experiences: Squishy Bags
Materials Needed:
3 plastic ziplock baggies;
shaving cream to ½ fill a baggie;
pudding to ½ fill a baggie;
toothpaste to ½ fill a baggie
Procedure:
Filled each baggie with a new squishy material and allowed the toddlers to interact with these baggies… while feeling the texture of each substance. Heated pudding and cooled s. cream so that there are multiple dimensions to the sensory experience.
Benefits:
This activity is beneficial to the child cognitively as it increases sensory inputs into brain. They are able to experience new sensations. Additionally, it provides cognitive development through the use of new vocabulary to describe these sensations. For instance, some of the children learned: squishy, soft, hot, cold, etc.
This activity is also beneficial physically. Particularly, it exercises fine motor development as the child squishes the contents of the baggie around while using each finger individually.
Most of all, it's SUPER fun! We had a blast!
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