Theme-Based Sensory Activities: Train Rides
Submitted by Gwyn McCormack on Jul 15, 2014
Here I share another sensory curriculum session plan full of ideas to support the theme of: Journeys on the Train.
Tactile
- Work with the children to simulate and role play being on the train.
- Sway and rock to simulate movement of the train.
- Guardsman uniform – feel flag, blow whistle.
- Dress up as ticket officer or train manager.
- Make ticket machine to use, make shiny circles to add to the ticket machine
- Make cardboard train.
- Fan to create the breeze made when the doors or windows of the train are open.
- Simulate rain on the window of the train using watering can on metal tin.
Visual
(some of these ideas would also be used in the tactile section also)
- Play with brio train track.
- Look at, feel and explore toy train.
Sound
- Shakers to make sound of train
- Horn, whistle
- Sound of train passing through the station
- Doors opening and closing
Taste
- Sandwiches, biscuits eaten on the train. Picnic on the train!
Smell
- Smell of sandwiches, biscuits, orange juice
Literacy
- Make up a story about the journey the children might be making e.g. to the seaside, to a farm.
Down By the Station
Down by the station
Early in the morning
See the little pufferbellies
All in a row
See the station master
Turn the little handle
Puff, puff, toot, toot
Off we go!
Bumping up and down in my little red wagon
Bumping up and down in my little red wagon
Bumping up and down in my little red wagon
Let's ride off together!
Repeat using
- My little brown donkey
- My little black buggy
- My little blue trolley
- My little green airplane
- My little white sailboat
Numeracy
- Count the train carriages.
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