It’s important to expose toddlers to different textures and you can do it in a fun way by giving them sense of touch activities. Read the step-by-step instructions below for our sensory hand Montessori-based activity for toddlers.
Maria Montessori compares a child’s brain before the age of six with a sponge. The reason to make this comparison is that children at this stage have a natural predisposition to learn new things.
Children learn everything they see, hear, smell, feel, and taste; therefore, it is imperative to carry out adequate sensory stimulation.
The objective of carrying out sensory stimulation activities with children is to develop and awaken the senses since information enters the brain through the senses.
There is where the entire process of assimilation and processing new information turns into knowledge.
That means that learning will always be linked to the senses. Sensory development occurs even before children are born.
In the womb, they are capable of perceiving sounds and tastes. When children are born, they have already made relationships with the stimuli they perceived while in the womb.
Facilitating the interaction of children with smells, sounds, and textures, among other stimuli, allows them to understand and know the world around them while developing an idea of themselves.
Children constantly perceive stimuli from the environment, so it is essential to generate surroundings that feel motivated to explore and investigate.
They find a free self-learning process, as proposed by the Montessori method.
These environments must be orderly, with light, in which children feel comfortable, with different stimuli. These objects produce sound, plants with smells, materials with textures, etc.
THEME: SENSE OF TOUCH ACTIVITIES
HOW DO WE DEVELOP THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Sensory stimulation
Age: 1-2-year-old children
Goal: Through this sense of touch activity, children will stimulate their sense of touch by experimenting with different textures.
Difficulty level: Basic. This sense of touch activity is designed for children to carry out autonomously, through exploration accompanied by an adult.
Skills:
- Textures identification
- Sounds discrimination
- Exploration
- Autonomy
MATERIALS
- Cardstock/heavy paper
- Glue
- Paintbrush
- Marker
- Pencil
- Sandpaper
- Foamy
- Plastic
- Sponge
- Cotton
- 3 containers
ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Step 1:
Draw your hand on the cardstock and outline it with a marker.(Adult help)
Step 2:
With the paintbrush, spread the glue all over the hand’s fingers. (Adult help)
Step 3:
Glue the textures on each of the fingers. Children use their hands to touch and feel the different textures. (Adult help)
ACTIVITY RESULT
Sensory hand with different textures on the fingers, a sense of touch activity for toddlers.
FREE PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS FOR TODDLERS
After doing sense of touch activities, give your toddlers fun worksheets too. Click the link below to download our printable worksheets.
Download the Free Printable Worksheets
HOW DO WE DO THIS SENSE OF TOUCH ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 1-YEAR-OLD
This sense of touch activity can be done with younger children. To reduce the difficulty level, you will need to change the materials.
With this sense of touch activity, children can feel and experiment with different textures.
However, children must be with an adult throughout the exercise to avoid any accident in the process. Thus, a toddler activity will be carried out according to the development and abilities of the children.
MODIFICATIONS FOR BOYS AND GIRLS OVER 2 YEARS OLD
This sense of touch activity can be developed with older children. To increase this activity’s difficulty level, you can do several hands, each with different textures, so that a blindfolded child will find the pairs feeling the textures.
This way, a sensorial activity will be carried out according to the abilities and development of the children.
VIDEO DESCRIPTION – THE SENSORY HAND SENSE OF TOUCH ACTIVITY
In this sense of touch activity video, you will find a detailed description of the “THE SENSORY HAND” activity, designed for 1-2-year-old children.
A hand with different textures was made so that the children can experience and identify each one.
This sense of touch activity will allow children to develop texture identification, sounds discrimination, exploration, and autonomy skills.
The materials needed are cardstock, glue, paintbrush, marker, pencil, sandpaper, foam, plastic, sponge, cotton, and 3 containers.
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