Sensory Areas: Families
Submitted by Gwyn McCormack on Jul 07, 2014
Nearly any topic lends itself to exploration through various multi-sensory activities. This week the focus is on the family, with examples of ways to engage in tactile, visual, sound, taste, smell, literacy and numeracy activities.
Tactile
- Tactile/visual book to represent each member of the child’s family.
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Role play the activity that represents each family member:
- Brother – bouncing ball (likes football). Use bright coloured, glittery balls, to roll on child’s table.
- Dad: Likes cars: sound of car, play with toy cars.
- Mum: Likes clothes: things worn by mum - feel bright coloured, different textured fabrics, and silky, woolly scarves, look in mirror, brush hair, put on chunky necklaces and bracelets.
- Pet families – Cats, Dogs, Horses, etc.
- Make Duplo house, create home area for role play.
Visual
(some of these ideas would also be used in the tactile section also)
Photographs of family members – make photo album
Sound
- Favorite music played at home
- Sound of door bell at home
- Sound of family chatting together
- Sound of mum and dad or brother and sister saying hello to child
Taste
- Favorite food of the family
Smell
- Favorite food of the family
- Mum’s perfume, dad’s aftershave
- Favorite bubble bath, shampoo etc.
Literacy
- Names of family members
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Family - a Fingerplay
This is a family hold up one hand, fingers spread
Let's count them and see,
How many there are,
And who they can be count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
This is the mother touch pointer finger
Who loves everyone
And this is the father touch big finger
Who is lots of fun.
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This is my sister touch ring finger
She helps and she plays,
And this is the baby touch little finger
He's growing each day.
But who is this one? touch thumb
He's out there alone,
Why it's Jackie, the dog,
And he's chewing a bone. wiggle thumb
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Numeracy
- Count number of bedrooms, number of people
Example Family Sensory Book
Page 1 - Mom and Sister
Page 2 - Pets
Page 3 - Dad (blurry)
Page 4 - Nan and Grandad
There are more shared ideas at www.positiveeye.co.uk
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