Sensory activity

[natashac78]

hi lm new trying to figure out how to post but anyway lm nearly finished my nvq 2 but have a few things to do l need to do a sensory activity with nursery children ages 3/4 any help on what i can do please someone deperate tasha

[Ruthierhyme]

Hi and welcome, I've moved your post to the level 2 forum, this thread may help with posting threads & replies

There are lots of sensory activities you could consider, ones that provide something to touch, see, smell, hear, taste, share & learn about.

The first day of spring is March 21st, how about providing some cut grass, scissors, yellow playdough, paper daffodil petals & trumpet cones - this activity doesn't immediately support taste, so maybe adding information on who does eat grass and how we don't - or donkeys will help children explore risk, or maybe growing cress? A pre-grown tub is good for comparrison, projection - seeing what will happen and sandwich making...

Sight - visual presentation of all the focus activity's resources
Smell - wet cress seeds have an aroma of their own.
Hearing - shake the seed packet, talk & discuss
Taste - make sandwiches for tasting : USA's nutritiondata.com cress & RDI information
Learning - how seeds grow/germinate and sprout to become plants, what they need to do this, what colour they are, will be, taste like, smell, feel like and their use ..

Messy play activities are good for sensory exploration.

Hth xx

[shamrock19f]

Hi i am new to all of this so forgive me if i am telling you something you already know or have already done!

For my sensory observation i did a feely box filled with pasta and fruit so the children identified by touch and smell without sight the different fruits, some cut and some whole - to cover hearing we then did a song about fruit Good luck you will be fine!

[charlotte1001]

For mine i did a treasure basket activity filled with shells, stones and starfish and similar natural items. I covered touch by; discussing with the children the different textures- smooth, bumpy, hard etc. I covered hearing by; listening in to the shells to see if we could 'hear the sea'. I covered taste by; talking about the majority of our items were from the seaside and then this led into a discussion about our favourite sea foods. I covered sight by; making a display of them with bright coloured backgrounds, labels and having pictures next to the items so there was 2d and 3d items on our display. I covered smell by; in our treasure basket we have scents bags of like cinnamon and herbs etc and we also smelled some of the shells to see if they smelt of sea smells. This went really well.