Fun Sensory Activities

Complete with dozens of ideas for babies, toddlers, and school-aged children, this book will help your family step away from your devices and step into endless afternoons of playtime fun.

This book explains why unrestrained movement and outdoor play are vital for children’s cognitive development, and offers fun, engaging activities to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults.

This book has many activities to promote language development at home as well as many other skills necessary for toddlers. This book contains over 280 activities designed to stimulate a toddler’s mind and body using easy to find and inexpensive items.

This book explores common play challenges and intervention techniques to use when you observe children struggling to play. Focusing on large motor and outdoor play activities, this book also includes background information and sensory-integration play tips from an experienced occupational therapist.

This book provides caregivers with ideas for sensory bins using materials already on hand to help develop fine motor and social emotional skills in young children.

Beckerleg describes activities that children find fun while they are improving their sensory awareness, coordination, communication, and social skills. This practical guide includes suggestions for using different types of equipment.

Loose parts are natural or synthetic found, bought, or upcycled materials that children can move, manipulate, control, and change within their play. Alluring and captivating, they capture children’s curiosity, give free reign to their imagination, and motivate learning.

Award-winning author and educator Miriam Beloglovsky advocates for play for play sake and invites early childhood educators and families to see children with diverse abilities’ strengths, recognize them as capable, competent and creative, and listen to their powerful voices. This book addresses the importance of play while providing appropriate accommodation to support young children with diverse abilities.

This book for parents and early interventionists contains a collection of reproducible sheets detailing developmentally appropriate activities that enhance the movement, motor skills, and sensory abilities of young children experiencing a developmental delay. It explains the role of physical therapists and uses family-centered, abilities-based models. This book includes theories, clinical applications, and skills for professionals to use.

The most complete guide to understand and overcome the challenges presented by sensory processing difficulties.

This book contains easy and inexpensive ideas for engaging a child’s senses. It’s a book for parents and teachers – or anyone with a child in their life – who want to encourage tactile learning but don’t want their lives to be controlled by chaos.

Step inside a world of sensory fun with these thematic activities. Each activity will guide you as a parent, adult, or educator with step-by-step instructions on what supplies you need (most you can obtain around your home or classroom), a scripted message to read, adult tips, and read-alouds that tie in with each activity.

The simple, low-cost activities provide practical solutions to help children meet the demands of any situation, building skills from handwriting and using scissors to improving posture, co-ordination and motor planning. 

Sensory Play for Toddlers and Preschoolers is a practical, hands-on guide for parents and educators who want to inject more play into their children’s day! Since this collection features simple sensory play ideas with items you already have in your home, playtime has never been easier.

This book helps in understanding sensory processing, how it affects regulation, how yoga helps with sensory regulation as well as learning how to adapt yoga to meet your child’s specific needs.

This practical book is packed full of fun, low-cost games and activities that encourage the development of motor skills, coordination and sensory tolerance in young children.

In this handbook, the author discusses 205 different sensory signals, each presented with a description of the different ways a child may experience the signal and with practical ideas to help all children accommodate the specific sensory input. This edition includes an extra section called :Sensory in a nutshell.”

Young children use their sense of touch to explore and understand the world in which they live.

This group is offering educational training & informational sessions, access to modes of therapeutic Sensory Integration, ability to provide resources and an opportunity for inclusive socialization.

This video shares a variety of easy to put together play activities for toddlers using common household objects.

Simple, fun activities using common household items to play with your 16 month baby that help to develop hand-eye coordination, balance, fine motor, and memory skills.  There is a whole series of videos by Pathways with Baby Games for all different ages.

Watch this video to gain an understanding of sensory integration. This video uses animation to provide information about: the 7 senses, how individuals use sensory information, and possible signs of sensory integration issues.

This video from the United Kingdom’s SenseCharity shares a lot of ideas for using common items you might have around your house to provide different sensory experiences and play exploration activities.

This video shares insights and need-to-know information for families, teachers, and caregivers on sensory

Talks about how sensory activities help the child in many ways and links to other sensory activities.

Playing with materials such as water can be an important outdoor experience for preschoolers. When children play with water, they can build fine- and gross-motor skills. They can also apply some basic principles of science and engineering.

Lists different types of sensory bins you can do at home.

Many young children attend experiences and events in their community. While theaters, festivals, and parties provide opportunities for learning, fun, and friendship, they can be overwhelming for some.

This blog post discusses the importance of allowing toddlers to freely explore sensory activities that aren’t usually thought of as art, such as water, mud, nontoxic plant materials, and sand.