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    Sand & Water Sensory Activities

    April 23, 2015 By Brandy Leave a Comment

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
    As a child there is nothing better than running your hands through sand at the beach and playing in the  water. We live a couple of hours from the beach and don't get there very often so we have a water table and a sand box to bring the beach to our backyard...kind of. Ruby's preschool teacher has a Step2 Cascading Cove Sand and Water Table and is so creative with how she uses it! As parents, we take turns helping at preschool and it is fun seeing all of the fun things that they are using their water table for!

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
    How cute is this? Miss Kami gave the kids silk flowers and a plastic jar of pretend insects. They had a great time "planting" their flowers and playing with the little bugs in the sand.

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
     She found this amazing play sand at Lakeshore Learning and I think I need some of it too. It is so fine and smooth, much better than the gritty stuff that I bought with our backyard sand box.

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
     The sand and water table came with some accessories like this little shovel and pot, a few boats, and two small bridges. The little pot was perfect for this activity.

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities

    The week that they learned about dinosaurs she set up a little dinosaur dig for them. Miss Kami used small plastic dinosaurs and fossilized insects that she brought back from a trip to Utah.

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
      They had fun using tooth brushes to dust off the fossils and "bones" that were hiding in the sand.

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities

    You can use water for both sides of the table, or sand, or both! Does the sand sometimes mix with the water? It sure does. Try as we might, those little ones love mixing the two and using the water to wash the sand off of their hands. Thankfully there is a drain plug on each side that makes changing the water quick and easy!

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
    I thought the kids would have a fun time making little boats to float around in the water table so I brought the supplies to preschool last week. The Cub Scouts made these for their rainwater regatta last year and had a lot of fun using straws to blow them down the race course. I bought a pool noodle and sliced it into sections and then cut each small section in half.

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
     The kids colored a sail (3x5 index card) and we used a wooden skewer, cut to size, to attach it to the pool noodle. They turned out pretty cute!

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     Ruby is very fortunate to have such a fun and creative preschool teacher and cute little friends to play with every week. I love being able to go in and play with them too!

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
    I knew that Ruby's teacher had been looking at this water table so I inquired about the possibility of being able to get her one from my friends at Step2 as part of my ambassador partnership with them. They graciously agreed and thought it would be a nice addition to this little preschool in exchange for sharing some of the fun ways the kids have used it!

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities

     

    Here are some other great sand and water sensory activities!

    Sand & Water Sensory Activities
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    About Brandy

    Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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