Sensory Time

Accompanying Music

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Activity

These activities can release tension, encourage placid children to be more alert, calm the more active child and organise the senses.

Messy activities such as finger painting, play dough, shaving foam, sand, water play, baking and preparing food, undertaken with the support of an understanding adult, can help children to cope with touching different textures.

Stimulating the skin by rubbing with cloths, brushes, sponges, loofahs, wooden rollers etc. can release tension, encourage placid children to be more alert and help organise and integrate the senses.

Massage and firm hugs can provide deep pressure to the child and give a feeling of security. Firm pressure in the palms of hands or the soles of feet can be comforting.

Children may be comforted by squeezing soft balls and being allowed to fiddle with a small object (fidget toy) or cuddle soft toys and ‘comfort blankets’.

Playing in, and with water, provides lots of opportunities to experience touch. Toys with squirters, funnels and sprays provide light touch. Watering cans can help a child who is afraid of showers. By adding bubbles, foam, soap crayons and a variety of scrubbers and brushes to the water (bath), ‘brushing’ the skin may be more spontaneous.

Vibration can be organising and calming for the senses, working like a massage on the skin. Some children who struggle with teeth brushing are happy to use a vibrating toothbrush. Allow children to use vibrating toys, foot massagers, pens etc. Using them for short spells of ten minutes followed by a break is most effective.

Daily Programme :

Morning Song, Sausage Song, Brushing Song and Lie Down Song.

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