Some ideas for your sensory table:
Pom Poms, Bottles, & Tongs:
Children use the tongs to pick up the colored pom poms and drop them into a bottle. This activity is good fine motor practice and hand-eye coordination. The bottles in the picture are Tazo drink bottles, which I chose because the opening was not too small and not too wide. I later replaced them with clear plastic bear-shaped honey bottles since our sensory table is on a hard floor and the Tazo bottles would break if they fell.
Trucks & Blocks with Sand:
Children can build a small village with the blocks and roll the trucks in the sand to make roads around their village.
Cathie said,
June 29, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
As an extension of the trucks and blocks in the sand, a sand table can also be used as a dinosaur or archaelogy dig. Kids can use small shovels, paint brushes and their hands to uncover buried plastic dinosaur or animal figures, shells, etc.
Sheryl said,
June 30, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
Karen, how have I missed your blog all these months? I love it!
Sheryl
Karen said,
June 30, 2009 @ 3:22 pm
Hi there, Sheryl! I can’t believe I didn’t tell you about my blog! It must have slipped my mind!