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Sensory Activity: Dry Pasta Noodles

January 29, 2013 by Jamie Reimer 3 Comments

Pasta noodles make for a great sensory activity for toddlers and preschoolers to explore with their sense or touch and even sound.

I set out a tub of macaroni noodles along with several items to play with.

Items to include for this touch and

After playing with colored spaghetti noodles with George… Henry and I made some spaghetti spider webs with it too!

This time, I let Henry do the coloring. What other color would he pick, but green?

I simply had cooked some spaghetti and threw a little

We turned The Imagination Tree’s bug slime spaghetti [eww!] into a sensory activity especially for Halloween!

I simply cooked up a package of spaghetti noodles, drained them and rinsed it with cold water to cool it down quickly.

Divide the spaghetti and add

Playdough is still Henry’s favorite go-to activity.

In need of new ideas for activities, I posted a discussion on the we teach : bodies to move board to link up your favorite fine motor skills activity. Nicole [The Activity Mom] linked up her

February 22, 2011 by Jamie Reimer 14 Comments

Henry worked on his hand-eye coordination
with his love for tools.

All you need are some golf tees (thanks Mom) and Styrofoam.
And, of course, your boy’s kid’s toy hammer(s).

The Styrofoam had slants around the edge.
For some reason or another,
this is where