Cheza Sensory Arts

Having a and stuck for games?

Why not have ! Give the littlets home made biscuits shaped in their favourite thing to decorate. Some love crowns, others unicorns and some may want cars or dinosaurs! All are fun to get the kids involved in making too!

We enjoyed indulging in as we decorated crowns in the spirit of . Writing icing pens and sprinkles are taste safe, colourful and exciting for the children.

Learning to control the icing as it oozes out of the pens and sprinkling the tasty sprinkles ticks off . Leaving the equipment at a fair distance from the working space also promotes the use of . It also assists with kickstarting conversations even for the less outspoken ones.

We also had a go with smelling and listening to the different levels of sounds that the sprinkles made as they dropped on the different working surfaces.
The cocoa in the chocolate sprinkles was definitely not sweet but tasted yummy.

It is a win win! They have a party snack to take home with them too if they don't gobble it up on the spot.

Did you know chores can be extended as ?

Making dinner on time can get tricky sometimes after school and juggling work, too. Why not turn it into a opportunity and transition your littlets from school to home comfortably whilst you also get the dinner preps done.

Burgers for dinner and part of the recipe required crushed tortillas - voila the tray with the tortillas and the right tool instead of the mixer became the play!

Some rich conversations came out of it with glimpses of language techniques that a 4 year old will learn to apply once a little older were emerging! Similies (heavy as a brick) and onomatopoeia (crunching, crackling) introductions are great to develop all through .

This also allows them a space to enjoy as they can explore the language and concepts without inhibitions.

strengthen the and and boost their as it provides a sense of responsibility and achievement by helping at home.

for 2022! Grateful for everything learnt and gained. Reflective of across the year and celebrating them too.

to everyone and may you all have hope to dream and achieve and positivity to keep you reaching for the sky in the new year.

kicks in all sensory regulation and boy do we miss it in the winter.

Even I have felt the need for today after all the festivities!

See you all in the new year!

Merry Christmas from us to you!

Hope you have all had restful and joyful celebrations and breaks!

I must admit, the ballerina zebra bauble still sits as my favourite with the nutcracker!

can be magical to keep the little fingers busy whilst the Christmas prep keeps the adult bodies busy in many other ways! It not only took over the why this and why that for over 45 minutes...but great for and too! Rejoicing was power jumps across the whole floor space available!

One of the best finds from for a £1 to go in Christmas eve boxes too or presents!

The blue fantasy world originates from the love for !

A notch up from yesterday! We just wanted to immerse ourselves in the snow all over again! Can you blame us?

The snow was colder than yesterday and almost icy too so why not continue working on the snowpeople we made.

Added some eyes, scarf and all else that was needed to make it colourful and cheerful as the cheer it has brought for us.

Struggling with balancing work and homeschooling for the early days of holidays...
👇 for how to extend playtime and learning whilst regulating the children all at the same time!

This can be completely building confidence for . It also enhances the Skills and equally. Promotes to learn colours. Get them to explore mixing colours and develop understanding of creating colours using two or three colours.

Extend to literacy and numeracy. Use the paint brush to write their name and numbers.

Makes a lovely capture for the Christmas card too.

Watch the space for the speech and language development that comes out of it as the imagination was let loose and wild!

White Christmas before Christmas on the onset of the school holidays 💙

One of the best sensory activities for humans of all ages...mini you and you!

We called it snow tags instead of a snowball fight. This explored imaginative language over set language used. Seeing the soft snow turn into a hard ball that felt colder got us talking about textures.

Great for balance and coordination as well as strengthening gross motor skills whilst taking in fresh air. This will also help strengthen fine motor skills and promote language development.

We also had a little cry as soon the little fingers froze and learnt how to rub our hands to get them warm before putting our gloves on. We talked about feelings once we were warm enough to keep going and build our snowperson.

Children find it amusing to use their own hats and scarfs to dress the snowperson!

Remember to dress warm and treat yourself to some warm drinks afterwards. Stay hydrated.

Happy Diwali and Happy New Year to all celebrating!

Creating this rangoli pattern whilst holidaying in Mumbai was so much fun! It was an easy set up with a rainbow platter of powder colour. Great sensory activity with calming benefits.

Creative juices flowed throughout whilst working on fine motor, gross motor, speech and language skills. Here Yarvi enjoyed also learning precision skills and talking about the various ways she was filling colour. Her favourite was 'like icecream sprinkles'!

A beautiful farewell, one of the most respectful, deserving and loving funerals we shall ever witness.

A historical moment to be remembered by many and phenomenal audience for love of The Queen. One of the most loved people in the world in an era of momentum changes.

Sad and emotive all under the open skies showering a beautiful day it has turned out. Cherish all your memories.

May you be at eternal peace now your majesty Queen Elizabeth II as lay at your final destination next to your beloved parents, sister and husband.

Thank you ma'am for everything.

Happy

May we appreciate with our children to love our earth everyday. Let us learn to love the outdoors, to dance under the sun, the rain and jump over the rainbow, be kind and compassion to all big and small living beings and simply love our wonderful outdoors world around us 🤎💚💙

This little shifts in play are enough to fill your child's sensory bucket 💟

Tip: Bring the outdoors indoors or create small sensory trays outdoors for inclusive play.

Let us all do our part to teach ourselves and our children to preserve our home 🌍

Setting up and creating “sensory play” for your baby or child should feel quick, fun and easy. Take a look at this simple child led "farm sensory tray" we set up and created within minutes with limited resources to fill the gap between dinner time and bedtime. Thank you London for the straw from the mother's day activity at Shishutots.

Let me show you the sensory input your child can get just through this sensory tray:

SIGHT⠀
• Looking at the straw and colours on their toys
• different configurations they can set up of the farm

SOUND⠀
• straw crunching between their fingers and feet
• animal noises you make together with the farm set
• hearing you speak to them as you extend their play
• rhymes such as 'Old Mac Donald'

TOUCH⠀
• texture of the straw between their fingers when they pick it up and hold it in their hand
• play with the straw under their feet
• the straw as they fill the animal troughs
• the toys they play with and their different textures⠀

SMELL⠀
• the straw
• flowers and grass can be introduced
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Our little one also made some Indian sweets using the straw- ladoos and gulabjamuns- so yum!

This only shows the minimal sensory play benefits. Now add the vocabulary your child builds, problem solving skills, gross and fine motors skills and parent-child bonding in the mix!

I can tell you: This is enough❣

This tray has helped us as a family as I had to take a step away as I was down with Covid-19 and Daddy had to step in.

Cooking is not just about ingredients, recipes and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment and creativity - Guy Fieri!

Storm Eunice may have kept us indoors but baking was a high sensory activity! From smelling coffee, tasting the icing sugar, feeling the flour huff out of the crunching bag to even licking of the mixing spoon. Our eyes were wide open as we saw the cake rise in the oven!

These real life skills were seen back in the play kitchen as we recalled the instructions to our recipe... ooh so many hours of fun and we didn't even realise where time went!