Sensory Areas Journeys: By Boat

Tactile

• Feel range of toy boats, feel cloth used for sails. 
• Make imaginary boat with broom sticks for oars. 
• Pretend to row the boat – sing "Row row row the boat." 
• Simulate the rocking motion of a boat. 
• Play with boats on water tank, include use of battery-operated boat if possible, listen to the splish, splosh of the water. 
• Play racing the boats across the water. 
• Fan to create wind on face, if on a boat. 
• Dress up in sailing wear, cagoule, wellington boots, peaked cap, souwester, stripy t-shirts, binoculars. 
• Weather on boat – rainy, sunny, windy – simulate with fan, bellows, air pump on voile, streamers, balloons for wind. Hairdryer for warm air. Torch light shining on sunny yellow, fluorescent fabric. 
• Simulate rain – watering can on tin tray, simulate wind with fan. 
• Simulate thunder by banging drums or clapping cymbals. 

• Use Wellington boots to make blue/green textured paint footprints to represent the sea. 
• Make large boat shape to add to the sea, children to add bright coloured/textured sails to the boat. 

Sound

• Listen to a ferry siren, horn

Literacy

Numeracy

• Larger, smaller, thin, wider, (shapes of boats) 
• Feel shape of sail – triangles, feel corners, feel straight edges. 
• Count boats on water.
• Line boats up by size biggest to smallest.