30/01/2021
💡 Sensory Saturday 💡
This week's 'Sensory Saturday' feature comes from 💚
Her page is absolutely fantastic, please go and follow! Emma started her page when her little one turned 6 months old. Starting as BLW weaning page but due to lockdown and restrictions this soon moved to an amazing play based account to share simple cost effective activities with others and gain the same in return.
Emma features so many great sensory activities on her page but I absolutely loved the 'Sensory Rave' post (featured in the first photo 📷) and it looks like it was thoroughly enjoyed by her little one. They used lights and sang nursery rhymes for an effective sensory experience.
Light play is such an amazing way in which to stimulate children's sense of sight and as you can see from the photos it can be achieved in a variety of simple ways. Carter became so interested in lights around Christmas, after seeing them on the Christmas tree. We then invested in a range of light based play resources including light up balls, light projectors and we even made him his own little den with fairy lights 💡
Research has shown that involving babies in sensory experiences from birth helps to boost their brain structure. 🤯
A hugely important fact that all parents should know is that during the first three months of a baby’s life, two million neural connections are created in their brain every second. That is why sensory stimulation from birth really is so very important, it helps create those new pathways in the brain by giving the baby new sensory experiences
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