10+ Super Easy Sensory Plays

All of the plays in this series are:

Appropriate for all ages
Use two or fewer ingredients
Use ingredients commonly found in a home

My hope with this series was to remind everyone that play doesn't have to be complicated to be fun!  And for those of you who are new to sensory play - I wanted to give you some nice and easy ideas for starting up.

To read more details about each, please click on the links.   They will lead you to the complete post.  :)
As I add more Super Easy Sensory Plays, I will add them to this post!

Cornstarch and Water

Dirt and Worms

Ice and Warm Water

Oatmeal Textures

Soap Foam

Wet Cotton Balls

Baby Safe Cloud Dough

Water Play

Birdseed

Rice Play

Dried Pasta

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Please always supervise your infant/child at play.  Please stay within arms reach and never leave infants/children unattended.

Encouraging Little Scientists

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Super Easy Sensory Play: Soap Foam

Infant+

I am writing a short series of posts entitled "Super Easy Sensory Play".  Activities included in the series all contain two or fewer ingredients and are items that are generally found in any house, so no need to run to the store for specialty items.  I hope that you will give them all a try!  You can read the other posts in the series here:

Super Easy Sensory Play:  Ice and Warm Water

Super Easy Sensory Play:  Cloud Dough

Super Easy Sensory Play: Rice

Super Easy Sensory Play: Water

Super Easy Sensory Play: Dried Pasta

Super Easy Sensory Play:  Cornstarch and Water
Super Easy Sensory Play: Wet Cotton Balls
Super Easy Sensory Play: Dirt and Worms

Here's another super easy sensory play using items you probably already have on hand in your house.  This one uses soap, and if you are playing with an infant who is still prone to "tasting" things, I'd strongly recommend using a baby-safe non-toxic soap.  We used Babyganics soap, another product I love, since I knew X was likely to try sneaking at least one taste and I am very comfortable with the ingredients in Babyganics soaps.  As with all activities, do only what you are comfortable with, and please closely monitor your infant/child.

To make super awesome foam, you'll need a mixer (unless you have some serious biceps - in which case I guess you could probably just do this part by hand!).  We poured a few tablespoons of water and about 1/4 cup of our Babyganics soap.  This particular soap has a foaming pump, so we unscrewed the top to pour the soap in.

Once it was ready, we poured it into our glass baking pan and brought it out to show X.

He was cracking us up with his expressions yet again!

He just couldn't get over the texture of the foam.

S loved playing with it as well.  So did I.  Some things are just universally appealing, I guess!

S getting big globs of foam on her hands.

X is still like - what is this?

No, but seriously guys - what is this???

Hahahaha - this is my absolute favorite photo.  He kept bringing his hands realllllly close, as though maybe it would all make sense if it was closer to his face.

 After X was done exploring, the dinos dove right in.

Girlie toes and a pile of dinos.  Things don't get much better!

The soapy foam was super easy to make (I think it took the mixer about 2 minutes to whip) and since there wasn't much water to speak of, the towel underneath was more than ample to catch any stray foam.  I just rinsed the kids' hands when they were done, rinsed the dish, and threw the towel in the laundry.

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