Hello, my name is Gemma and this week's video is all about sensory play for your toddler.
I have previously made a video all about sensory play for your six to twelve month
I'll link it above now if you haven't seen it
and so I thought I would make a new video with
What to do with your toddler because Oscar is now a year old
So we have kind of moved on from the things that we were doing and we're doing still lots of sensory play but different activities
So I thought I'd make it a gear this week of another ten activities that you can start doing for toddler when they also reach
the year milestone
So what is sensory play? Well sensory play is pretty much probably what your one-year-old is already trying to do
They will be using their sight their hearing their balance and movement their sense of smell touch taste
To investigate explore and learn they will be doing that naturally and it is inbuilt in them to do that
Unfortunately at the moment, they can't read and learn things
So they are learning through doing so as a parent if we can provide and facilitate different
opportunities for our children to investigate things through their senses
We're just helping their development and aiding their exploration of different aspects of their lives
So in this video, I've put together ten different activities that cover a range of different senses
And I really hope that you enjoy watching them and I hope that you will try them out with your child and if you do
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So without further ado
Let's get straight into the video with our 10 things that you can do with your child to support their sensory development
Depending on where you live getting out into nature doing some gardening is probably one of the easiest sensory activities you can do for your
Child getting into the guys and returning provides so many opportunities. Here's oscar with his hands in dirt
He helps with the authoring of balance feeling the cold water
Getting out into nature and seeing the bees like here in the lavender field. He's also learnt to
pick strawberries
Find them under all the leaves smell them taste them and it also helps my dad with collecting up
the leaves in the garden
So the opportunities are endless for sensory development
The smells tastes moving around is just endless so definitely try to get out in the garden and just see
Exactly what your child gets up to
What painting is great activity for tactile and visual development as well as improving your child's fine motor skills
I've got these little sponge paint brushes from the pound shop in a big pack of paint brushes and things
And just some sugar paper for mark making and it is super fun. Especially if you're not a fan of too much mess
This is probably the activity of feo
Moon sand also known as cloud sand is a recent discovery for us. I
Noticed that Oscar was really enjoying being out in the garden and having his hands in dirt and I just thought to provide more opportunities
For him to feel different textures that moon sand would be a good opportunity
so I use a really simple recipe which is 4 cups of flour for half a cup of baby oil and
you just mix it around in a big bowl with a spoon and
Oscar also helps me to do it and it actually keeps really well
I just keep it in a sealed container and then just bring it out whenever he
Wants to play with it and it seems to have kept really well
So moon sand is brilliant because it is so soft to touch and really cool actually as well
it also holds together really well so you can make shapes and
snowball shapes or pack it into a container and then break it apart and this is
Love to do with it. He doesn't tend to squeeze it together at that stage yet
But maybe an older child could but I make the balls for him and he loves it breaking them apart
Magnets could buy quite a few opportunities for sensory play first
We need bought these another ones from a listener and Doug
They really support our nursery rhyme songs and also our storytelling
And Oscar loves to pick them up out of the box and place them on the radiators
Which is another bonus of being bright in the UK that we have big magnetic surfaces these I have lovely pictures of animals
they really support visual learning and
His fine motor skills are also developed by being able to pick them up and place and pop in the radiator
we do lots of scene with
supporting his or to learning and obviously talking about the animals and I'm also doing Basel sign language with him so that he learns the
signs for each animal
The verb basket really supports our child's problem-solving skills as well as their fine motor skills
All you need is laundry basket and some rope
Just weave in and out the rope to create a web and place some objects that will interest your child underneath
Oscar really loves doing this and it could intrigues him every single time
It's always handy to it objects in there that he hasn't seen for a while as well. But he loves this activity
Newspaper floor is as easy as it sounds just spreading the newspaper across the floor and letting your child crawl along it this really supports
That auditory learning. Is there hearing that crunching sound which babies and what does love?
But also it's being able to see the colors and the pictures from the newspaper
Is really an added bonus Oscar loves also just picking out and ripping the pages so many different senses are being supported here
Posting is a skill that many children around this age will start to love I
Noticed as soon as Oscar was getting towards one that he was loving putting things in and out of boxes
so I just cut a
Large hole in a cereal pocket and gave him a pack of cards don't expect to ever get those cards back or than be in
useable order
But he loves picking up these cards and posting them into the box by providing opportunities for your child to do the posting skill
You'll be working on their visual and tactile development as well as their hand-eye coordination
You can try a range of different
objects to post into so we've got a big large jar that Oscar place wooden balls and
People into so there's lots of opportunity to work on the posting skill
Edible finger paint. All you're going to need is some yogurt and some food coloring
I use one of these dishes with a section with a spoonful of yogurt a little bit of food coloring and then I make a
myriad of rainbow colors
I then give him some brushes sponges and here's a fingers to paint with and he could do that on sandpaper
the only thing with this is you're not going to end up with a picture that you can keep because obviously yogurt isn't going to
Mark make that well
But it does provide them with an opportunity to get their hands dirty in yogurt and you know that that if they eat it
It's not going to be a problem. It's a great one for the garden as well and Oscar really enjoys painting himself
So pillar Mountain is really a recreation of a soft play
But at home, so you can create a wall or a tower of pillows and encourage your child to
Scramble and climb over them at this age climbing and using their body for balance and movement is exactly what they want to be
They need to use those muscles to develop their gross motor skills, and this is a great
Activity to provide that opportunity
So you can do this in many ways that just loves pushing on the pillows climbing over them and creating his own Towers
So we've made it to our final activity which is rainbow oats
All you need is a cup of oats in a big bowl and a variety of food coloring you
Will need about a quarter of a cup of water possibly slightly less with some food coloring in it
Give it a good mix to distribute the food coloring and then add it gradually to your oats
Depending on the food coloring that you use I'm using gels will depend on the coloring that you get from the oats
Mine didn't color completely, but it worked out really nicely. So I made red orange
Yellow green and blue oats and just laid on paper towel overnight to really absorb all the moisture
You want them to be super dry before you give them to a child?
I then put them in a container and gave Oscar a variety of implements to use to play with them
He loved using the big spoon. He also had a talent lunch box container, which he filled and
Unfilled and he just enjoys that experience and tactile
activity
So that is the end of this week's video
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