Toddler Tuesday: Sensory Sink
It’s Toddler Tuesday time! Today, I’m sharing a simple activity you can do with your toddler anytime. All you need is a sink, jello, small toys, and whatever else you’d like to add in. When we made our sensory sink, I just filled a sink with water and poured blue jello powder in. Then we added some glitter just to make the water shimmer. I cut out some lily pads out of foam and I intended to put our plastic frogs on them…however, I could not find them anywhere in our house! I got out some lizards instead. (It’s pretty likely my toddler did something with those frogs…)
This is a great sensory activity because your toddler gets to play with water and also smell the scent of the jello! It makes the whole room smell good. For this activity, you just let your toddler play in the water and use their imagination. My toddler loved it!
It’s also a good activity to practice pouring.
We then played an alphabet game in the sink. I took 6 foam alphabet letters and placed them in the sink. Then I told which letter for Wes to get and he had to find it. It sounds simple, but it was helpful for him to learn some new letters.
Have you ever tried a sensory sink with your toddler?
Great idea:) I’m a fan of letting my tot play at the kitchen sink – it makes for a great rainy day “water table” and is a great way to keep tots occupied while you’re cooking. My tot loves to clean her “babas” (aka pacifiers) and mix water in a bowl in the sink. More on that, and a link to your great post, here: http://hintmama.com/2014/07/22/todays-hint-the-rainy-day-very-cheap-water-table/
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Love this! Going to try a sensory sink with my toddler tomorrow with orange jello powder!
This is great! We are featuring your post this week on Share It Saturday at Sugar Aunts. Thanks for linking up!
Colleen at Sugar Aunts
What a great idea! I must try something like this, my children would love it! Thank you for linking up with Mom’s Library, I’ll be featuring you this week at Crystal’s Tiny Treasures 🙂
I really need to use the sink more! So easy for clean up and so versatile. You always have such great ideas! Will you link this up or any of your other wonderful sensory bins/play today with me? Just starting this on Wednesdays!
http://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/ultimate-wednesdaysensory-play-party-linky/
Yes, I do need to use the sink more, too! Easy clean up is so nice!
I would love for you to stop by today and link up again! I love your stuff!
I never would have thought to use jello to color the water. It is perfect though because like you said you get a good color and smell. I will have to try this.
Yes, jello is fantastic! Hope you’ll try it out!
This is cute! I would love to try in my sink but afraid of the water that might end up all over my floor! So…. Since the weather is so nice I may do this in our outdoor water table. The only sense that might not get as much is the smell since it will be outside but I imagine there will still be a hint of it! Thanks for a cute idea!!
Thanks, Susen! Surprisingly, we had very little water on the floor. Maybe the next time we do this he’ll get it all over! I love your idea!