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Slime Pond Sensory Play

A little after-school sensory play is sometimes just what we need. While my daughter was dipping her hands in slime she said, “this makes me feel so calm… it just feels so good!”

Olive Eve and Co.’s Large Pondscape is definitely the star of the show here! How gorgeous is this resin piece? It arrived at our house and was in a play setup within an hour. I couldn’t wait to use it. Once my kids are past the sensory play stage, this will be going on a display shelf in my house. It is art. 

resin pondscape with frog

The green slime is from Zimpli Kids.  It was so easy to make, just mix the powder with water and wait 15 minutes. It made for such an easy sensory setup that delighted my kids. I also found the slime easy to clean up with a little soap and water. That’s a win in my book! 

turtle toy and resin pond sensory play
mini lily pad trays with droppers for slime play
yellow door education rustic pourers with slime

Materials

  • Large Pondscape – Olive Eve and Co.
  • Zimpli Kids Slime Play, Mini Lily Pad trays, Yellow Door Education Rustic Pourers – Sewing Seeds Play (save with code HOUEOFPLAY10)
  • Acrylic Lily Pads – Stars and Sensory
  • Round metal tray, rocks, mini stumps – Dollarama
slime pond play sensory activity for kids
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“Stick and Stone” Sensory Book Play

We love the Stick and Stone books by Beth Ferry. My 3 year old son, especially, is a huge fan of these characters and their tales of friendship.

Stick and Stone book play

I thought it would be fun to try a book play activity with the kids. We are new to book play and I don’t know if we’re really doing it “right”. However, my philosophy when doing any of these activities for my kids, is to keep it fun and that’s the same focus I applied to this activity.

Both kids know this book well, so I kept it very relaxed, provided no instruction or prompts and let the kids decide where they wanted to take the play. First, they spent some time exploring the different trees with Stick and Stone (in the book, the characters are on a quest to find Stick’s family tree). Then they wanted to read the book and finally they dug into some sensory play. 

This was the first time this year we were able to take our sensory play table outside and it felt so good to enjoy a nice evening with a relaxing activity for the kids in the fresh air.

storyboard wood pieces, pinecone wood tray
stick, stone, felt pinecone
dirt sensory filler and water sensory filler

Materials

  • Stick and Stone: Best Friends Forever – Amazon
  • Storyboard pieces (The Great Outdoors pack)- The Eye Spy Club
  • Felt Pinecone, felt heart and Within & Co mat – Sewing Seeds Play (save with code HOUSEOFPLAY10)
  • Dirt SCENTED sensory mix (save with code PLAY10) – Readymade Play Canada
  • Acrylic Lily Pad – Stars and Sensory
  • Wood Pinecone tray – AW and Co. (save with code HOUSEOFPLAY10)
  • Wood trees – Birch and Bark, Ostheimer & Raduga Grez
  • The blue sensory mix is the mixed-up leftovers from our Dinosaur tray a few weeks ago 

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