Baby Sensory A-Z: U is for utensils

My original thought was to do umbrella but I had recently done the ice bucket challenge and didn't want to get wet going out in the rain. Do I research letter U activities and found Utensils.

I thought that could work. It was a quick session and we never did any craft or messy play with them but we could do some baking and siving next time. We could even paint with the masher. 

So I made up a kitchen utensils bucket and let them explore and encouraged them to make music and we role played goldilocks and the three beard eating porridge. 

Then my preschooler used the tongs ( which is the utensil he picked) so I got some recycled bottle tops and a muffin tray and encouraged him to count, sort and spell out the letter U.

Next time we will probably :-

Bake a cake

Make scrambled egg to use whisk or angel delight

Siv flour and raisins then make a cake

Mash some veg 

Paint / stamp with them

Make scented salt dough

Make Rice Krispie cakes 

Loads to do to make it last all day!

Zac 1 Dylan 3.9

Space themed play

Hi ,

As part of the baby sensory series I wanted to introduce Zac to salt . So I decided to make a sensory box. We recently visited the space centre and so I thought a space themed box  is a good link to that.

So we set up the box and also decided to make a space scene to play with.

What did we use?

A salt space sensory box with stars, space characters/rockets

A black sheet for space scene

Space themed toys and objects that could represent space objects

Scratch paper

Plain paper, Black paint/brush and wax candle

Dress up costume

Rice Krispies and cooking chocolate plus silver/gold sprinkles

Black paper and chalk

What did we do?

Dress up as buzz light year 

Collected space objects for the bucket

We played wth the sensory box

We set up and played with the sensory scene

We arranged objects in order of size

We scratched a space scene and a rocket

We drew stars on a piece of paper with wax and painted over with black paint

Played with empty salt containers as rockets

Make space cakes

Draw a chalk space pic

Here our our pics of the day.

Collected and played with objects in a space bucket

The space bucket: toy story characters, rockets, flow in the dark stars/ planets, cups, hoops and balls.

We made it dark and started setting up the space scene.

They used them as musical instruments

Sorted the rockets by size

Counted and sorted the stars by size

Counted and arranged the planets

Counted, described and arranged cups

Then we played with the toys for a while .

I set up the sensory box by mixing salt with black liquid paint and decided to add a bit of flour to make the texture better for playing. Added toys, stars , cake cup cases balls and hoops.

Zac climbed in and Dylan put his feet in.

I forgot to take a pic of the scratching but here is the rocket.

Spelt out space on the fridge

Chalk space drawing- Zac seemed to understand draw and dot dot dot lol.

Space bouncing on the moon (trampoline)

Making space cakes

Rice Krispie and chocolate cakes with gold and silver cake deco balls aka Space Cakes

Fun packed day very exhausted but very rewarding .

Dylan 3.8 and Zac 1.