Sensory Toddler Activities - Find fun, sensory ideas at home

If you are not sure to do with cut flowers that are starting to pass their best, this loose parts play is perfect for encouraging your child to explore nature.

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What Can you Make?

This is a easy and stress free loose parts play idea for children using resources in your kitchen cupboard and toy bag.

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Melting Hearts

This Valentine’s sensory activity for babies, toddlers and children will melt your heart. Messy fun and will keep your little one entertained.

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Valentine's Sensory Dough

This toddler valentine's playdough invitation to play activity. is quick to set up and let’s your child explore the Valentine’s theme.

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Valentine's Sensory Play

A wonderfully easy sensory play activity for babies, toddlers and children to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

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Decorating the Christmas Tree

Two wonderfully easy sensory Christmas activities for any baby, toddler or child who loves the Christmas tree and it’s decorations.

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Christmas Playdough

This Christmas playdough activity will encourage your toddler’s and/or child’s creative skills as well as giving them a multi sensory Christmas experience.

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Christmas Sensory Rice

Quick and easy Christmas messy play activity to encourage mark making and exploring colours.

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The Snowman

This messy play Christmas activity idea is based on the classic story This Snowman by Raymond Briggs. It is a lovely activity for babies, toddlers and children.

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Woodland

Cute small world sensory activity using autumnal colours and smells to create a multi-sensory learning opportunity.

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Traffic Lights

Really simple and effective messy play activity which teaches colour recognition as well as encouraging speech and language, exploration and independent play.

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Shaving Foam Art

This is a wonderful messy play and art activity for toddlers, babies and children. It is a quick and easy to set up and the shaving foam and paint look really effective and enticing against the black of the tuff tray.

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Building Fireworks

This visually enticing fireworks activity for toddlers, babies and children is a great way for your child to explore colours, practice their fine motor skills and give them wonderful opportunities to develop their speech and language.

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Rainbow Rice

A visually enticing sensory activity for children of all ages.

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Colourful Rice

A lovely, visually enticing activity which can be easily adapted for babies, toddlers and children using resources in your kitchen cupboard.

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Jelly in a Tin

A lovely sensory messy activity for younger and older children.

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Cooking with Water

Playing on that classic activity of banging saucepans and bowls, we just water to help our babies cool down on a hot summer afternoon.

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Colourful Worms

Prep for this activity needs to be done a few hours ahead of time but it is worth it. Great activity to explore textures and colours.

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Sprinkling Flour

This is definitely not the cleanest activity but if you can relax into the mess there is lots of fun to be had. Plus the hoovering up afterwards can become an activity in itself.

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Sensory

These activities are a great way for your children to explore the world around them using their senses in a fun and engaging way