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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Preschool teacher here.  Sensory play is one good thing for kids to do.  Sensory bins are one way to give children different sensory experiences (smooth. wet. round, granular, etc).  SO play dough is a sensory experience, as is squishing yogurt in your hands, or splashing in the bath.

In a preschool classroom, we have a sensory bin and fill it with new things each week:  sand, soil, water, pebbles, dried corn, dried beans, feathers, leaves, cotton balls, hay, snow, etc.  We give the kids cups and spoons and funnels to scoop and pour with, or fake flowers to plant, or dump trucks to drive around in the sensory bin.  The hands-on sensory play can be very soothing to young children, and it is good open ended exploration and touching of safe objects.  We can also incorporate play tied in to a lesson plan theme: If we are doing construction, we'll have dirt and rocks and shovels and trucks, if we are doing sea animals, we'll have water and toy fish or frogs.

You don't have to do a "sensory bin" at home, but if your child gets to touch the leaves, pour water in the pool, squeeze playdough, crumple paper, etc, they are getting a range of sensory experiences, which is good.  [/quote]

Not OP but thank you for your explanation. Wish I did this when DD was younger. She has issues with textures and she's 1.5 now.[/quote]

+1. 3.5 yr old has sensory issues, too.  I am not making the same mistake with DS2. [/quote]

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