{"id":467,"date":"2023-12-21T17:40:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2024-02-15T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T15:34:57","slug":"advent-day-21-christmas-sensory-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/advent-day-21-christmas-sensory-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Day 21 &#8211; Christmas Sensory Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s time for a Christmas sensory activity today.  We have been so busy with Christmas outings and activities we haven&#8217;t done a lot of sensory play this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The table was all set up and ready to go this morning, so the kids could start playing as soon as they came downstairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9574-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Christmas sensory flisat play\" class=\"wp-image-464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9574-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9574-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9574-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9574-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9574-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Homemade sensory mix, green tree board from Birch and Bark Natural Wood, tree plate from The Creative Mix Shop, gem block light bulbs from Highway to Railway, acrylic light bulbs and ornaments from Eye Spy Club, bells from Dollarama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the budget for a fancy Christmas sensory mix this year, so I made one using food dye, acrylic paint, pasta and chick peas.  See <a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/22\/how-to-make-sensory-pasta\/\">here<\/a> for more information on how I made it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The elf was also waiting with his own tiny sensory set-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9581-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"elf on the shelf sensory table\" class=\"wp-image-465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9581-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9581-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9581-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9581-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9581-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mini sensory table from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeyespyclub.com\">Eye Spy Club<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Both kids had a wonderful time tinkering with this set up today.  We will leave it out for a few more days or until too much of the sensory mix ends up on the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9587-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"sensory play christmas tree\" class=\"wp-image-466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9587-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9587-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9587-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9587-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_9587-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for a Christmas sensory activity today. We have been so busy with Christmas outings and activities we haven&#8217;t done a lot of sensory play this month. The table was all set up and ready to go this morning, so the kids could start playing as soon as they came downstairs. I didn&#8217;t have &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/advent-day-21-christmas-sensory-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advent Day 21 &#8211; Christmas Sensory Play&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,117],"tags":[18,54,6,8],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-sensory-play","tag-activityadvent","tag-christmassensoryplay","tag-kidsadvent","tag-mailegadvent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahouseofplay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}