Introduction
If you have little time or you do not have a sand or watertable, you can also offer a small, simple tray of lumped together, sensory items. The assembling of the materials can also start with a colour hunt game in the house, where you collect everything with the chosen colour. Or a walk and a chamomille blossom can be - like for us- a starting point for a tray.
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Yellow chamomile tray - calming and relaxing
- Muffin pan, ice cube tray
- Chamomile rice, chamomile
- yellow pasta, yellow glass nuggets, yellow numbers and letters, yellow pony beads
- Tools: Spoon, sugar tongs
Pour yellow coloured rice in a bowl. Optionally, colour rice with a very strong chamomile tea instead of water colouring.
Fill the muffin tray with different yellow items - beforehand, you can also play a little treasure hunt in the house to look for yellow things.
Lay out the tools - and let's start!
Chamomile has a very calming effect on the body - we used this tray at our home in the evening before going to bed.
Orange-rice - stimulating, happy, fruity
- bowls, cups
- orange rice, orange
- Orange bits and bobs, cutters, stars, glass nuggets, orange slices
- Tool: spoon
Pour orange coloured rice in a bowl. If you like you can scent the rice with some orange oil and mix some orange peel into it
Fill the bowls with different orange things.
Place tools next to it - and get started!
Purple Lavender-rice - balancing, calming, sleep-inducing
- bowls, cups
- Lavender rice, lavender
- Purple bits and bobs, cutters, shells, sticks
- Tool: spoon
Pour purple coloured rice in a bowl. If you like you can scent the rice with some lavenderoil and mix in some lavender.
Fill the bowls with different purple things.
Place tools next to it and get started!
Lavender has a calming effect on the nervous system - it is a wonderful sensory play activity before going to bed
Green rosmary-rice - balancing, helps focusing
- Muffin pan, ice cube tray
- Rosemary rice, rosemary
- Green bits and bobs: numbers and letters, pasta, glass nuggets, green pony beads
- Tools: Spoon, sugar tongs
Pour green coloured rice in a bowl. If you like you can scent the rice with some rosmary oil and mix in chopped rosemary.
Fill the muffin tray with different green things.
Place tools next to it and get started!