Children’s Activity: Making Sensory Calming Bottles

Sensory Activities

Sensory activities have many benefits:

• They develop motor skills such as coordination
• They support language acquisition
• They encourage problem solving
• They build nerve connections and neural pathways
• They support cognitive development
• They benefit social connections
• They calm the central nervous system

What does it include?

Sensory activities can include:

• Playdough (plain, scented, coloured – find our recipe here)
• Sensory baskets
• Exploring malleable play (cornstarch, shaving foam, slime, ice, dried pasta…..)
• Sand play
• Water play
• Popping bubble wrap
• Finger painting
• Fidget toys
• Calming bottles
• Bubble tubes
• Sound tubes or rain makers
• Cloud dough
• Kinetic sand

Sensory Bottles

This week, we are sharing the steps to make your own sensory bottles. Just download our instruction sheet HERE 

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