22/12/2023
Activity of the day 🌱
The therapeutic benefits of sensory bins are endless, but here are a few to get started. 👇
👃Sensory Exploration: Sensory bins stimulate a variety of senses at the same time, such as touch, sight, sound, and smell. Dry textures, such as dry rice, feathers, bird seed, and pom-poms, or wet textures, such as water, cooked pasta, shaving foam, pudding, jelly, etc., can be used.
✍️Fine Motor Skills and hand Strength: Children can work on their fine motor skills through scooping, grasping, stirring, and pouring with various tools. These tools may include plastic spades, spoons, tweezers, tongs, funnels, measuring cups, etc. These encourage tool use and help develop grasp patterns your child needs for activities such as handwriting and using feeding utensils. This can also increase hand strength, coordination, bilateral coordination, and in-hand manipulation.
💬 Social & Play Skills: Sensory bins offer an excellent opportunity for cooperative play and the development of social skills. Children can learn how to share and take turns, the value of teamwork and cooperation, and how to communicate with others. Calming Activity Sensory bins can provide a quiet activity to help children calm down and play independently. For children who become overstimulated or overly excited by sensory input, a repetitive, fine motor activity can sometimes help them regulate and calm themselves. Having a child pick up small objects one at a time and place them in a small opening or container is a great way to do this.
