🖐️ Sensory Activities
Explore the world through seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting and moving. Fun activities help young children discover and understand their surroundings.
🌟 What Are Sensory Activities?
Sensory activities allow children to learn by using their senses and body. They can help children explore, notice differences and develop coordination.
Seeing
Notice colours, shapes, sizes, patterns and movement.
Hearing
Listen to sounds, voices, music and everyday noises.
Touching
Explore soft, rough, smooth, hard and bumpy textures.
Smelling
Notice different pleasant everyday smells.
Tasting
Explore different safe foods and flavours with an adult.
Movement
Use the body to balance, stretch, jump, walk and move.
🔍 Sensory Explorer
Choose a sense to explore.
Seeing
Look carefully at colours, shapes, patterns and objects around you.
🖐️ Touch & Texture Explorer
Touch safe objects with an adult and describe how they feel.
🧸 Explore Different Textures
👂 Sound Explorer
Tap a sound and listen carefully. Is it loud, soft, fast or slow?
🔊 Loud or Soft?
Learn the difference between louder and quieter sounds.
👀 Colour & Pattern Hunt
Look at the symbols. Find matching colours and patterns.
👃 Smell Explorer
With an adult, smell safe familiar things and talk about what you notice. Never smell unknown substances.
👅 Taste Explorer
Taste only safe foods approved by an adult. Talk about flavours such as sweet, sour, salty and mild.
🧠 Sensory Sorting Game
Think about which sense helps you explore each object.
👀 Seeing
Things we can notice with our eyes.
👂 Hearing
Things that make sounds.
🖐️ Touch
Things we can feel.
👃 Smell
Things with familiar smells.
🧘 Sensory Movement Break
Movement helps children notice their body and develop coordination.
Clap
Jump
Walk
Stretch
Balance
Turn
✅ My Sensory Discovery Checklist
Tick the activities you have explored.
💡 Sensory Learning Tips
🎯 Sensory Activities Quiz
Answer 10 fun questions.
Great Job!
🛡️ Sensory Activity Safety
Adult Supervision
Young children should have an adult nearby during sensory activities.
Do Not Taste Unknown Items
Never put unknown materials, objects or substances in the mouth.
Keep Things Clean
Wash hands and keep activity materials clean.
Respect Comfort
Children can stop an activity if a texture, sound or smell feels uncomfortable.
Check Materials
Use age-appropriate, non-toxic and safe materials.
Have Fun
Sensory learning should be playful, positive and enjoyable.