Sensory play is the best way for your infants or toddlers to learn.
In our blog of how baby learn, young children learn from making input pathways in their brain with the help of 5 sense: touch, see, smell, taste, hear, balancing and less known spatial reasoning. The more their 5 senses are stimulated, the more neural pathways they will form in their developing brain. Sensory play becomes a crucial activity at home or in schools to multiply children’s intelligence.
5 benefits of sensory play for our infants and toddlers:
- Cognitive skills: It helps kids learn via the use of multiple senses. Kids can remember and recall information later. They learn cause and effect, problem solving and their creativity is further challenged.
- Language development: we explain the texture, the name, how it feels to play with water for example, kids naturally develop a rich library of vocabulary, hence can explain themselves better.
- Social skills with peers: young kids have different ways to interact or manipulate their toys. Putting a group of babies next to each other who are curious about sensory bins will be the first step to promote social interactions among that infants or toddler play group
- Practical life skills: to be able zip up their jacket, or tie their shoes, toddlers or preschoolers need lots of opportunities to practice their motor skills. Sensory play, such as transferring water, drawing in shaving cream etc are much needed to prepare them for daily activities.
- Kids with disabilities benefit more from sensory play (article). They crave more sensory stimulation. All of these sensory play will keep them occupied for hours figuring cause - effects and solving problems with open ended toys presented to them.
It involves some (or lots of) mess to make a sensory table yourself. Changing different sensory play themes per week or per month still requires preparation time from your busy schedule. Parents are hesitant to layout sensory play with preschoolers. Our sensory play sessions are designed for that purpose. We provide high quality sensory toys and a safe environment for your children to thrive. Let us take care of the mess and chaos. Learn more about sensory play sessions here.
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