Sensory Challenge Week 3: Hard & Soft

A lot of my last week was very broken up with helping my friend while she was in labor. I was gone for 3 days this last week. It made for a strange week for me and the girls. This week when I was home we have worked on hard vs. soft. I wanted them to use sight and touch to see if they could point out items for this. Below is one activity that I did for this. I wanted you to see more details of what we did.

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We have been doing a lot of sensory this month and one thing we have worked on is hard vs soft. Here are the simple activities that I did with Mary.

What you need: bag (or pillow case) soft items, hard items, paper to sort the items on.

Mary felt the two items I gave her. We talked about how they felt. We put hard item by the word hard and soft item by the word soft.

Mary got the bag with the hard and soft items in it.

I asked her to pull out one soft item. Then she got several soft items.

Then she go several hard items out.

Mary finished up the sorting. She had a lot of fun with this.

All the items sorted!

After we finished the sorting we made a pattern: soft then hard. She did this out of all the items from the bag.

Additional things to do:

• Have them point out items in the room that are hard and soft. Then have them tell you why they think it is soft.
• Have them describe what makes an item hard or soft.
• Ask them about items in the house they use and if they are hard or soft: cups, wash cloth, fork, spoon, favorite stuff animal, clothes, shoes, hanger, the wall, the rug or carpet, sink, flowers, books, bed, pillow, blankets, table.

We spent the whole week on hard and soft and comparing items and seeing what was different. We collected items from all over the house. It was a great learning lesson for them by using sight and touch.

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