Sensory Bags

Sensory bags help stimulate your child’s touch, imagination, and creativity. Not only are they great fun, but they are quick and easy to make! For this sensory bag, we added hair gel, glitter, foam letters, and foil star confetti...

Simply mix a few drops of food colouring into the gel (remember a little goes a long way). Pour the mix into the Ziploc bag and add your glitter, buttons etc. Be sure to seal it well, and enjoy! We used glitter glue as it is much neater and easier to work with than regular glitter.

Your child will have a blast squishing the bag and finding all the goodies inside. Sensory bags can be made with many different textures if you don’t have any hair gel on hand…try shaving cream or paint! They can provide hours of fun to children of all ages.

For other fun ideas you could make a list of items your toddler needs to find in the bag, use googly eyes or even add cooked spaghetti! You can tape it to a glass window or let your toddler handle it directly. I taped it to a window which let him stand and use both hands to squish and explore. Sunlight shining through the gel works wonderfully.

Have fun!

TIP: To remove the Ziploc print from the bag all you need is to lightly rub with a little nail polish remover and a sponge and the white print will come right off!