WATER/SAND EXPERIENCES (Media/Sensory Table)
Water, Sand and Sensory
Tables are particulary popular with toddlers.
Goals/Skills:
-
- Concept and language
development (empty/full, warm/cold, wet/dry
)
- Small motor development
and control
- Tension
release/relaxation appropriate outlet for anger
- Math Concepts
(more/less, spatial concepts, measuring, comparing,
properties, volume, mass, cause and effect, texture,
etc.)
Supervision:
- Children must wear
smocks (limit smocks to number allowed at table)
- Children assist with
clean-up of spills (to encourage independence and
responsibility) with child-sized brooms, wisk-brooms,
sponges or mops.
- Sand (or whatever
media) needs to stay in the Sensory Table.
- Remain close by for
appropriate supervision, encouraging conversation.
- Children need to wash
their hands before and after participating in this
activity.
Suggested Toys and
Materials:
Squirt bottles
Squirt Creatures
Shovels and Scoops
Whisks
Egg Beater
Water can
Toy Mills
Sand Molds
Sponges
Buckets
Cups
Sieves
Sifters
Funnels
Tubing
Pumps
Baster
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