Age: From 1 year old Activity Duration: 5 - 10 minutes Preparation Time: 10 minutes Objective(s):
1. To gives your child a fun way to practise in identifying and naming objects only through the sense of touch.
2. A fun way to learn about the name of animals
Materials:
1. 1 drawstring bag
2. Some different animal toys as shown in the picture Directions:
1. Put all the things into the bag, and ask your child to touch one item at a time, and guess what it is, then take the item out.
2. Then say the name of the item to your child, if he could not say its name.
3. For younger toddlers, put one item at a time in the bag, and ask your child to put his hand into the bag, touch the item and guess what it is, then take the item out.
Additional Information:
C (1Y1M21D) tried this for the first time today, and she enjoyed the game :-)
Objective(s):
1. To stimulate and develop the sense of smell and touch.
Materials:
1. 1 transparent storage box approx. 40 x 30 x 16cm
2. Some elderflowers
Directions: 1. Simply place the elderflowers in the box.
2. Let your child touch and feel the texture of elderflowers, hold them and smell them.
3. Describe the feeling, the touch and the name of the sensation to your child, for example, ask your child doesn't the flowers smell good.
Additional Information:
29 June 2017 (1Y1M13D): We plucked some elderflowers off a main road side. As it is polluted by the traffic and not suited to make into elderfower cordial, I decided to use them for the sensory box for Baby FECS.
Before I made this sensory box, she was very eager to play with these flowers from those we plucked from non-polluted trees. When I finally made this for her the following day for her to play to her heart's content, after touching and taking out some of the flowers, she quickly lost interest... the novelty was perhaps lost already.... grrrhhhh!!!
Objective(s): To refine the child's sense of touch through matching fabrics according to the texture by feeling with the child's fingers.
Materials:
1. The Fabric Box contains different pairs of fabric such as:
Cotton
Wool
Jute
Silk
Linen
Velvet
Satin
Leather
Rayon
Demin
2. 1 blindfold (optional)
3. 1 mat
Presentation:
1. Mix the pile of fabric randomly.
2. Take the 1st piece of fabric from the top of the pile.
3. Feel it with your hands.
4. Take the next piece of fabric from the pile and compare if they are the same through touch.
5. If they are not the same, i.e. they don't match, put the 2nd fabric aside to the right of the pile.
6. Continue to compare one fabric at a time until a match is found.
7. Place the matched pair on the top left corner of the mat.
8. Continue matching in the same manner until all pairs are found.
9. After your child has gained sufficient experience, use the 3-Period Lesson to teach the name of each fabric.
10. To increase the challenge, use a blindfold for your child to rely solely on his touch to match the pair, instead of sight (optional)
Video Demonstration:
Here is a video demonstrating the above presentation:
Additional Information: I did not introduce this to J, when he was a toddler. It was too much work, and I am not good at making things. But I would like to do this activity with Baby.
I am currently on maternity leave, waiting for the baby to arrive. As such, I have attempted to make my own Fabric Box. I cut out the pieces from unwanted clothes, scarves, towel, etc. I re-used a wooden box, which came with chocolate, to store the fabric.
It has taken me the whole night yesterday to make this. I am glad I have completed it.
Additional
Information:
J (3Y3M3W3D) tried this game today, and he enjoyed it. He was too quick at it, and picked one wrong item, but we had a good time laugh together.
2. 10 hard objects (e.g. pine cone, stone, pebble, sea-shell, marble, lego brick, pasta, hard plastic ball, wooden block, chalk, mobile phone, bottle cap, fanta-colour peg, etc.)
3. 1 large container to contain them.
4. 2 bowls
5. 1 blind fold (optional)
6. 1 tray
Directions:
1. Put on the blindfold on your child, pass him a hard object and ask, "Is this hard or soft?" "Make a guess what it is?" Talk about how he feels when touching it.
2. Remove the blindfold and let your child place it in the bowl for hard objects.
3. Put on the blindfold on your child, pass him a soft object and ask, "Is this hard or soft?" and "Make a guess what it is?" Talk about how he feels about touching it.
4. Remove the blindfold and let your child place it in the bowl for soft objects.
5. Repeat for the rest of the items, until all the items are sorted into hard and soft objects.
Additional Information:
J (2Y7M2D) played this activity together with Amy today taking turns. They enjoyed it very much.
