Sensory Car Wash
Setting: classroom or playroom
Materials:
PCP Pipe
Paper
Markers
Blue Balloons
(to make stress balls)
Stress balls (stress
ball recipe is further down on the blog, see the side for direct recipe)
Tissue paper or
streamers
Loofas
Sponges
Strips of shower
liner
Wax Paper
Feather dusters
(4)
String
Tape
Scissors
Instructions:
Create stations using PCP pipe and create
titles to go on top of the PCP that say “wash, soap, scrub, dry, wax, buff”.
Tape these to the pcp pipe.
Create stress balls (please see further
down on blog for this recipe and tie them to string to hang down from the wash
station. Tie the strings at the top of the PCP pipe.
Next take tissue paper or streamers and
hang down/tape at the soap station.
Tie together loofas and sponges and tie
them with string from the scrub station on the PCP pipe.
At the scrub station tie 4 feather
dusters with string and hang down at the dry station over the PCP pipe.
Hang down and tie wax paper on the wax
station on top of the PCP pipe so that it hangs down.
Finally on the buff station cut strips of
a shower liner and tie them to the top of the pcp pip so that it hangs down.
Allow the child to go through the station
and play.
Have them describe the different feel of
the dangling objects at the different stations.
Purpose: This is a fun way to use play and
imagination to experience different sensory experiences. Play and imagination
helps the child to problem solve and identify with roles, even if they are
imaginary it prepares them for when they are older and the issues are no longer
imaginary. Sensory exposure helps them to identify with emotions. This activity
can also promote social play with other children since it is a bigger sensory
project. Maybe watching the movie Cars before or after this experience can
promote imagination and roles through the car wash! This sensory activity also exposes
the child to a variety of touch feels along with use of gross motor activity to
work their way through the car wash in a military man crawling position.
Pedia Staff.
(August 22, 2012). Adorable Gross Motor and Sensory Idea-Sensory Car Wash.
Retrieved from:http://www.pediastaff.com/blog/adorable-gross-motor-and-sensory-idea-sensory-car-wash-10052
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