Sensorial activities
Refining touch, sight, hearing, and smell: your child sorts, matches, compares, recognizes. Each activity isolates one quality (color, texture, weight) so the hand and the eye learn to name it.
20 Sensorial activities, sorted by age. Every one works at home, with what you already have.
For 18 to 24 months
The Mystery Bag
Recognizing an object by touch alone, without seeing it. A small magic trick for the hands.
The Treasure Basket
A basket of real objects to freely explore with hands and mouth: the first sensory discovery.
The First Shape Puzzle
A one-piece round puzzle with a big fat knob: the circle fits, or it doesn't.
The Object Permanence Box
The ball disappears into the hole, then reappears in the drawer: the great mystery of objects that come back.
Knobbed Cylinders
Cylinders of different sizes, only one hole that fits each one: the wood doesn't lie.
Shaking Instruments
A bell, maracas, a small tambourine: discovering that a motion makes a sound.
For 2 to 3 years
Color Sorting
Each bottle cap finds its family. The first real sorting work.
Matching Socks
The laundry basket becomes an observation game, and you get sorted laundry out of it.
The Shape Sorting Box
A circle, a square, a triangle, and three slots: each shape fits only its own.
Big and Small
Two baskets, a pile of objects, one question: is it big or small?
Matching Lids
Five boxes, five lids all mixed up: each one only fits its own.
Soft and Rough
Two boards to stroke with fingertips: touch learns to compare.
For 3 to 4 years
Matching Textures
Pairs of fabric found by touch alone, eyes closed: the sense of touch getting sharper.
The Silence Game
Making silence together, listening to it, then hearing your own name whispered: the calmest game there is.
Sound Boxes
Sealed boxes that whisper or rattle: finding the matching pairs by ear alone.
Light to Dark
Seven shades of a single color to put back in order: the eye learning to see finely.
Smelling and Matching
Two rows of small jars, and a sense we almost never train: smell.
