Z is for Ziplock Sensory Play (2024)

FAQs

What liquid do you put in a sensory bag? ›

You can use canola oil, vegetable oil or baby oil. It really doesn't matter.

Babies love sensory play, but it can certainly get messy 🙃 Sensory bags are a great compromise: they allow your baby to explore without the mess that can come with open containers. Here's how: Fill a resealable plastic bag with tactile materials like hair gel, pumpkin seeds, shaving cream, or marbles.

Place flour, food colouring and water into the small mixing bowl. Mix until all the ingredients are well blended. Scoop the mixture into the plastic zip-lock bag. Before fastening the end, place the squishy bag onto a flat surface and gently push any excess air out to avoid air bubbles.

A sensory bag is a bag full of everyday objects and materials that your baby can explore. Babies explore all the time and in many different ways. It's how they learn. For example, babies often put things in their mouths.

Provide one part water for two parts cornstarch. I love to make TONS and the children get so much joy out of mixing up a huge batch of this goopy, drippy mixture. Feel free to add a few drops of coloring, but I really like to keep things simple and natural and typically go without the coloring.

You can certainly reuse the plastic bag for new sensory bags and do not need to use chemicals such hair gel, detergent or liquid soup. If you need a gel like substance, you can use gelatine.

Glitter sensory bottles are simple to make and offer lots of visual stimulation. To create one: Combine hot water and glitter glue in a plastic bottle and shake until the glue is dissolved. Add extra glitter and secure the lid closed with super glue.

Cleaning and safety

To protect the health and safety of our guests, staff and volunteers, sensory bags, sensory bag items and weighted lap pads are sanitized after each use.

Help children add oil and water to the bag. Allow them to decide how much of each to add, filling the bag no more than half full. Invite children to add food coloring to the bag. They can choose one color or more than one—it will be interesting to see the results of one color vs.

What do kids learn from sensory bags? ›

Sensory bags help young children to develop their sense of touch and fine motor skills as they manipulate the small objects around the bags. The types of sensory bags you can make is endless!

Sensory play has an important role in your child's development. Not only does it help your child engage their five senses—sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste—but it also boosts their language skills and motor skills. Sensory play also promotes exploration, creativity, curiosity, and problem-solving.

Sensory bags can be used to increase tactile exploration, hand strength & finger coordination, as well as cognitive concepts with kids who are blind or visually impaired & also multiple disabilities. Sensory bags are a fun way to include students with or without additional disabilities in pre-reading activities.

Fill ideas: Coloured water and glitter, sequins, buttons, gems, etc. Thicker liquids such as dish soap, hair gel, corn syrup, or glue.

All you need to do is squirt some water-based (washable) paint into a gallon bag, add about half a bottle of baby oil, and close the bag. It is best to tape the bag closed and tape the bag to the floor. Make sure to supervise! The paint will eventually mix and become brown, but it will still float!

After a week or two, I added a fourth bag as well, a wave bag. Keeping with the blue theme, it contained blue water and vegetable oil. Since the water and oil don't mix it was fun to watch the waves and bubbles created by little (and big) hands.