BENEFITS OF
SENSORY PLAY
WHAT IS SENSORY PLAY?
Sensory play is any activity that stimulates the five senses of touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing.
BENEFITS OF SENSORY AND CREATIVE PLAY
Cognitive Growth
Frequent exposure to sensory play helps with developing healthy nerve connections and the ability to perform complex learning activities.
Memory Development
Frequent exposure to sensory play helps with developing healthy nerve connections and the ability to perform complex learning activities.
Calming & Coping Skills
Sensory play is great for helping children learn how to filter their senses. Sometimes the world around them can seem over-whelming and over-stimulating. Honing in on sensory play teaches them that they can filter out other things that aren’t important at the moment and focus on what they are doing.
Knowledge
Hands-on play encourages discovery, an important tool for all learning styles.
Creativity
Sensory play is fun and entertaining for children, and also allows them to explore and investigate new possibilities and ideas.
Decision Making
We use our five senses to make decisions on a daily basis without even realizing it. Helping our children learn about and recognize their own senses is important to help them develop.
Fine Motor Skills
Using their little fingers to sculpt and build with dough and to interact with sensory items helps develop and refine critical fine motor skills.
Problem Solving
Sensory play encourages children to problem solve by allowing them to observe, form a hypothesis, experiment, and reach conclusions on their own.