Play Ideas
Auditory
- Follow the leader with rhythm sticks-make a beat that your child can follow then switch + follow your child’s beats
- Drumming circles with various pots + pans
- Make your own rattles/rain sticks (empty toilet paper roll with masking tape + rice/beans-add in tactile experience + have them hand paint the roll themselves)
- Talk to each other through toilet paper roll-use soft, medium, loud voices
- Singing/stomping around the house-loud medium soft (eg. to twinkle twinkle)
- Bubble wrap-pop, stomp on
Visual
- Funnels, different size cups with different colored water, make tornadoes
- Make play volcanoes (baking soda mix with vinegar and food coloring use Dixie cups)
- Glitter projects (glitter glue)
- Hide a light up disco ball/flashlights around the house and have kids find them
- Flashlights-use cellophane to change the color
- Fill water balloons together and throw into different colored buckets outside
- Bubble blower hold it up high/down/low
Touch
- Paint with warm spaghetti or fall leaves
- Use shaving cream in a bucket outside to step/play in with various colors
- Draw on carpet squares with chalk + erase it with your feet
- Footpaint outside on warm day
- Fill bucket of lotion/shaving cream + hide things inside it to find
Smell
- Use little plastic bottles, cotton balls
- Alerting scents-basil, garlic, oregano, lemon, orange, mint, onion, vinegar, chocolate, coffee, dirt
- Calming scents-chamomile, almond extract, apple, cinnamon, scented markers, soap, lavender, banana, pine needles
Taste
- Cooking projects together
- Make mini pizzas
- Cookies
- Snowcones
- Popcorn
- Alphabet soup
