Outside Water Play Ideas for Kids

We LOVE to play and learn with water! It's a natural sensory material that is absolutely a blast to explore outside while kids cool down in the summer! 

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Penguin Ice Races

Whether it's chilly outside or you just want to cool off on a hot day, penguin ice activities are irresistible for kids! We love ice races for the oral sensory stimulation they provide as well as the fine motor work required. Our children just love the slip sliding penguin antics!

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The Best Activities Based on Children's Books

Kids, teachers, and parents all love educational activities based on classic children's books. Your child's favorite story comes to life as they create crafts, play games, and try recipes themed around their favorite characters. We've collected the best stories and done all of the planning for you to follow along!

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Acorn Sensory Bottle

We've gathered real acorns to explore and crafted our own in all the acorn activities for kids we've tried over the years! This autumn season we made an acorn discovery bottle that is perfect for sensory play outside or on the light table. 

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Identifying, Sorting, and Classifying Marine Mammals

We love hands on science ideas for kids! We learned to identify and classify marine mammals from other ocean life in this sensory sorting activity. 

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Foam Blocks in Water

Our kids love any sensory play invitation that involves water! Foam blocks are so fantastic in water because they float and the water acts as a glue making them stick to each other and vertical surfaces. We thought of so many learning activities with these two simple materials. 

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Spelling Sensory Sink

Our kids love sensory play activities! We used an indoor sensory sink as an invitation to explore letters and work on spelling. 

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Rainbow Polka Dot Discovery Bottle

We love any excuse to play with rainbow colors! This discovery bottle is extra fun because the rainbow polka dots are transparent so you can see different colors where the rainbow colors overlap. We also tried a new to us sensory bottle filler that worked beautifully that we can't wait to share with you!

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Chocolate Cocoa Writing Tray

Does anything smell better than chocolate? It can any task more fun! We decided to use a chocolate writing tray to practice spelling, math, and more. It was the most delicious sensory experience! Yum!

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Ice Alphabet

Ice letters are a great way to play while you explore the alphabet. They are the perfect sensory experience in the summer or winter! 

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Snow Printing Process Art for Kids

Whether you have snow this winter or want to make your own for this process art project, we'll show you how! We love how the snow prints turned out unique just like snowflakes! 

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Top 10 Valentine's Day Sensory Bins

I love the colors of Valentine's Day plus interesting tactile sensory bin fillers really invite kids to dig right in! We love have found ten of our absolute favorite Valentine's Day themed sensory table ideas. Which one will you try first?

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Frosty the Melted Snowman Sensory Play for Kids

Have you ever touched oobleck? If you have then you know how utterly irresistible it is and if you haven't I insist you whip up a batch right now! Or at least at some point this winter you have to try oobleck for the perfect pretend play melted snowman. Let us show you how this non-Newtonian fluid creates the coolest Frosty the Snowman you'll ever meet.

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Play and Learn with Feathers

There are so many ways that kids can learn and play with feathers! Whether you choose colored craft feathers or natural ones, the invitation to create and explore is so inspiring with these light and delicate objects. These are great ideas for Thanksgiving too!

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Shape Sensory Squish Bag for Kids

Our kids love sensory play! We're learning shapes so we created a sensory squish bag with triangles, circles, and squares. It's irresistible to touch and talk about in the window or on the table. It's super easy to make, too!

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Witch's Brew: Fall STEM Sensory Play for Kids

We love any excuse for sensory play but this Halloween activity includes a STEM twist! We covered science, technology, and math as we cooked up our own Witch's Brew.

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Big Red Barn Sensory Small World

We created a fun farm themed sensory small world that would be perfect for a preschool farm unit theme. It includes animals as well as several interesting textures to explore during play.

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Play and Learn with Glitter

People seem to either love or hate glitter. Personally, I think everything is better with some sparkle! We're sharing the very best ideas for kids to learn and play with glitter.

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Play & Learn with Colors

Colors are a vital early childhood education concept for babies, toddlers, preschoolers and even older kids! Vivid color adds excitement to all kids' activities so we are always adding the rainbow to our playful learning ideas. We've rounded up the very best preschool color ideas to learn and play for your own classroom or summer camp at home!

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Quick as a Cricket Sensory Play

We love the book Quick as a Cricket! We extended the learning by acting out parts of the story with sensory play outside! 

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