This week develops awareness of touch, the protective role of skin, texture vocabulary, and safe recognition of hot and cold. Hands-on sensory play, material transformations, the senses book, a sensory walk, art, and rectangle work let children compare tactile experiences directly.
What children learn
- Understand that skin protects the body and enables the sense of touch.
- Explore and describe textures using words such as soft, rough, smooth, bumpy, slippery, wet, and dry.
- Distinguish hot and cold sensations and recognise the need for care around hot objects.
- Observe how materials can change texture through mixing, melting, pounding, or grinding.
- Recognise and construct rectangles through objects, collage, movement, and mosaic work.
Key activities
- Cotton mystery bag and Orbeez/jelly-ball sensory play
- Foam Art with shaving cream and paint
- Mystery texture bag and Touch Board exploration
- Making playdough and adding textured hands to My Senses Book
- Hot and Cold classification followed by ice painting
- Outdoor sensory walk, mystery-box Show and Tell, and rectangle collage
You’ll need
cotton balls, Orbeez or jelly balls, textured mystery objects, touch boards, shaving cream and paint, flour, water, oil and food colouring, senses books, textured cut-outs and glue, ice and warm packs, hot/cold picture cards, sensory tubs, rectangle flashcards and cut-outs
Structure: 5 days; each day includes a Thought of the Day, Tuning-in Time, GMD, Cognition/Literacy, FMD, and Numeracy activities.