Hands-on tools for children to explore their world through their senses. Sensory play activities calms, focuses, and engages a child.

Sensory play is any activity that stimulates children’s senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing. 

Stimulating the senses helps children develop thinking, language, social-emotional, and physical skills.

Through sensory play, children explore, and naturally use scientific processes while they play, investigate, create and discover new sensations. Sensory play is also linked to supporting early child development. For example, listening to new sounds supports language development, and sorting unique materials, like soft versus hard items, supports fine-motor skill coordination and cognitive development.

Many children are not being exposed to sensory play these days, which is probably why we see an increase in children with sensory processing disorders (SPD). Some children are sensory seekers and crave the excitement and touch of messy play and may try to get this need met using other means if they are not exposed to fun sensory experiences and opportunities regularly.

Children can develop many skills through the power of play. Play helps to nurture imagination and give a child a sense of adventure. Through this, they can learn essential skills such as problem-solving, working with others, sharing, and much more. In turn, this helps them develop the ability to concentrate.

Our Boxes are specifically designed to engage a child’s senses. They open the door for play and experiential learning, allowing children to explore and experience independent thinking. Parents LOVE our Busy Boxes because they can sit back and relax while their children are having fun. Children LOVE our activity boxes because they are fun, and there is so much to do.