Ever noticed how young children enjoy feeling, touching, squishing, mushing and generally playing with their food? It's just another way they are exploring and discovering with their senses!
How about trying out this sensory food activity to encourage this natural curiosity and developing hand/eye coordination and fine motor skills.
Use a melon baller to make balls of different coloured melons.
Give the children a range of utensils to pick up the fruit with, shown are spoons, skewers and straws. Tongs would also be a great addition or chop sticks.
And then let the children explore!
They may pick them up and eat them, smell them, squish them. If you provide colour coordinated cups they may sort them developing one on one correspondence skills.
This could be a great activity at snack time or to keep kids engaged whilst you prepared lunch!
This idea and more great tried and tested ideas can be found at;
www.platathomemom3.blogspot.ca
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