- Let your child pick out natural materials from a ’sensory box’ - a container filled with objects they can touch such as pine cones, nuts, sticks, seashells, stones, and so on. An idea for such a box can be seen below.
- Extract small objects from a container filled with dry cereal product or pulses.
- Extract small objects, such as nuts or glass beads, from a jar using a spoon or tweezers.
- Transfer water from one container into another with the help of a spoon or a sponge.
- Stick some small objects (such as cereal, dry pasta, or buttons) into plasticine or play dough.
- Transfer water with the help of a plastic funnel.
- Extract small objects from a container filled with cereal or pulses using a sieve, and examine what does and doesn’t pass through it.
- Stick some stickers to a piece of paper.
- Insert some small objects (dry pasta, buttons, peas, beans) into a cardboard box with small round holes.
- Insert some small objects (such as coins, paper clips, counting sticks, or buttons) into a plastic box with a latticework lid.
- Take various small objects and/or toys from a bag, mix them up, and then place them back in a different order (you can change what’s in the bag to keep it interesting).
- Unscrew and screw back on the lids of jars and bottles.
- Take out various coins from an old purse, and then place them back in.
- Remove any old and unused credit cards, business cards, mini calendars and so on from the sections of a wallet, then insert them back in.
- Make different figures out of lollipop sticks or counting stickers.
- Draw images using soap on a piece of cloth.
- Color in and draw on old DVD and CD disks you no longer need using highlighters.
- Stick some plasticine to old CD and DVD disks.
- Cover an old CD in PVA glue, sprinkle a cereal/pulse over the top, and wait for it to dry. Then draw over the contours of the surface with a felt tip pen and/or paint in different colors.
- Press the buttons on an old telephone.
- Look through some of the drawers in the kitchen (make sure all dangerous objects have been put somewhere else).
- Investigate the drawer in your work desk (again, with any potentially dangerous objects removed).
- Make holes in a piece of paper with a hole punch.
- Give your child a fresh box of little (dental-sized) paper cups, and let her stack and crash to her heart’s content.
- Use paper clips to make a chain.
- Stick some Scotch tape to any linoleum flooring in your home, and then let them tear it off.
- Stick strips of Scotch tape down, and use them as racing tracks for toy cars.
- Stick various small objects (cereal products, peas, beans, pasta, buttons) to a piece of double-sided Scotch tape.
- Get a pack of different colored cocktail straws, and sort them into separate piles by color.
- Get your child to draw around their hand on a piece of paper (help them if necessary), and then turn each finger into a little person, or whatever they want, using pens and pencils.
- Open a selection of boxes where you’ve hidden various surprises (keep a few empty, just for suspense).
- Put various objects in empty boxes. Suggest putting both large and small objects inside them, so that your child can see which ones fit and which ones don’t.
- Build various structures out of empty boxes.
- Unwind and tear up some toilet paper or kitchen roll.
- Place paint in a gallon-sized Ziploc bag. Seal the bag, then tape it to a window. Let your toddler move the paint around in the bag using their fingers.
- Give your child a large magnet and various objects, and let them have fun finding out which are magnetic and which are not.
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