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Sensory Play and Early Child Development

Sensory play includes any activity that stimulates your young child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, sight and hearing. Sensory activities and sensory tables facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate and explore. Spending time stimulating their senses helps children develop cognitively, linguistically, socially and emotionally, physically and creatively. Learn all about child development through sensory play, find activities and crafts that encourage sensory play and discover how to make your own sensory table below.


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Articles:

  • Developing and Cultivating Skills Through Sensory Play
  • Developing and Cultivating Skills with a Sensory Table
  • Early Exploration Through the Senses
  • Five Sensory Crafts for Kids:

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  • Gak/Flubber/Slime
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  • Quicksand
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