Water play is one of our favorite sensory activities next to those using baking soda and vinegar {like this recent St. Patrick’s Day version}. They only require simple materials and are very engaging for my kids – and most kids I know.
For today’s activity, I made a Green Sensory Soup for N to explore.
We don’t “officially” learn specific colors, but we did do a Yellow Sensory Bin several months ago. This time, I stuck to green just for fun – but of course it was also an opportunity for N to explore his concept of the color green.
Recommended Color Books for Toddlers
Study colors in a fun way with these cool books about colors for toddlers.
Toddler Coloring Book. Numbers Colors Shapes: Baby Activity Book for Kids Age 1-3, Boys or Girls, for Their Fun Early Learning of First Easy Words … (Preschool Prep Activity Learning) (Volume 1)
My First Toddler Coloring Book: Fun with Numbers, Letters, Shapes, Colors, and Animals!Simple First Words Let’s Say Our ColorsFirst 100 Padded: Numbers Colors ShapesTabbed Board Books: My First Colors: Let’s Learn Them All! (My First Tabbed Board Book)LeapFrog LeapStart Preschool Activity Book: Shapes and Colors and Creativity
Materials for Green Sensory Soup
- Fizzy tub colors, liquid watercolors or food coloring. {We love fizzy tub colors, but the other options work just as well.}
- Water.
- Green items you have on hand. We had foam letters, LEGO, plastic balls, Easter eggs, pipe cleaners, heart bracelets, and more.
- Water table (optional, a sensory bin works fine, too).
- Utensils like a whisk, ladle, cups, bowls, a squeeze bottle, etc.
N got to put the fizzy tub color tablets into the water for the first time. We watched the blue and yellow mix, and I explained what was happening.
Then we put the green items into the water table, and N didn’t waste any time before diving right in.
He particularly enjoyed exploring the green plastic egg, and he ended up giving the squeeze bottle a new lid 🙂
The squeeze bottle was filled with plain water this time, but that didn’t take anything away from how fun it is to squeeze.
N practiced using the ladle to fish balls and Easter eggs out of the green sensory soup,
and he spent some time amusing himself pretending to drink the water. {As opposed to actually drinking the water, as he’s tried to do frequently until just recently.} He thought that was pretty hilarious 🙂
Once again, an activity that took only minutes to set up kept my little guy busy for almost 20 minutes – always a win in my book!
If you’d like to try a few other simple sensory activities, this Bug Sensory Bin and this Water Balloon Sensory Bin are firm favorites.
More Sensory Activities
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Flower Sensory Soup
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The Natural Homeschool says
My children are older, but they would most definitely love to play with a sensory soup like this one!