Sensory Play: Icy Week

Sensory play is Reya's most favorite activity at the moment besides coloring and pretend plays. This week we are exploring ice and some vocabs related to it. As always, sensory plays promotes imaginations and creativity as there is no right and wrong answers to it. Just experimenting and developing self-esteem as they kept try and exploring.

She is able to identify waters, wet, frozen, solid and liquids. She had so much of fun.. Some pictures of our activities:

1) Ocean Theme in Icy Waters

Things we will need is lots of ice cubes and block ices, a container and some ocean animals

2) Fizzy Ice

Things we will need are:

- crushed iced and some cubed ice in a container
- vinegar
- blue food coloring to give a blue water effect
-syringe
- baking soda

Firstly mix vinegar with food coloring. Use crushed ice on a bowl/container and add in baking soda. Add another mound of crushed ice on the baking soda. Use the medicine dropper/syringe to squeeze in colored vinegar to the crushed ice and observe the fizzy bubbling sounds.

Reya was amused by this and kept asking for more ice. We ran out of ice super fast..This definitely addictive and while doing we chatted about what she saw, the reactions and experiment with lots of colors.

3) Ice Painting

Things we will need:


- Water mixed with some baking soda and leave in freezer till it become solid and the color   will be white
- colors ( we use crayola washable paints)
- paint brushes

Once the water is frozen till solid, color as per imagination and create super cool arts. The mixture can be washed and recolor to recreate so many designs and experiments with color.

It was so much fun to see Reya explore and focusing on the activites. Mission accomplished and she kept wanting to play with more ice.. Looks like icy week to be continued....

Thank you for reading.