Hands-on exploration

Sensory Play

This program can include any activity that stimulates a child’s senses: touch, smell, taste, movement, balance, sight and hearing. Sensory activities facilitate exploration and naturally encourage children to use scientific processes while they play, create, investigate, and explore. Experiments take place each Wednesday at 11:30 a.m.

Upcoming activities:

May 1^st: Raised Salt Painting

• Explore a world of texture and color with raised salt painting! Craft unique designs using liquid glue and salt, then paint your designs with watercolor paint to create lively interplays among the materials.

May 8^th: Oobleck

• Experiment with cornstarch and water to create a non-Newtonian substance for this sensory play activity. Engage your senses as you manipulate this substance and watch it transition between solid and liquid with each touch.

May 15^th: Chromatography Collage

• Using markers, water, and special paper strips, learn about color separation and create your own collage out of the strips of paper.

May 22^nd: Papermaking

• Engage with unique textures while helping our planet by recycling bits of paper pulp into brand new sheets of paper. Experience the tactile delight of shaping and pressing the pulp, witnessing the transformation as it dries into a fresh canvas.