Creative Cubs

For our hands-on messy play activity, kids loved participating in the wet sticky oats. This was perfect for them to mould and scoop, Sensory play such as this builds nerve connections within the developing brain’s neural pathways, which trigger a child’s inclination and ability in completing more complex learning tasks. This exercise aids in calming an anxious child. In essence it also supports language development, cognitive growth, motor skills, problem solving skills, and social interaction. The mouldings and manipulating of oats helps children learn vitally important sensory attributes (cold, sticky, dry, etc)

We focus on all these fundamental aspects in a way that is best understood and accepted by our children.. learning through a hands on and interactive approach..

The Benefits of Messy Play for a Child's Physical Development
Fine Motor Skills. Messy play helps young children develop their early motor skills. ...
Gross Motor Skills...
Muscle Strengthening...
Hand Eye Coordination...
Body Control & Balance...
Spatial Awareness...
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Messy, sensory play at its best! Shaving cream is great for sensory exploration and provides endless opportunities for children to play and discover.
Sensory play encourages children to manipulate and mould materials, building up their fine motor skills and coordination.Sensory play uses all 5 senses, but the sense of touch is often the most frequent. Toddlers and children process information through their senses. They learn through exploring these.
Sensory play is unstructured, open-ended, not product-oriented; it is the purest sense of exploratory learning
Self-esteem: sensory play offers kids the opportunity for self-expression because there is no right answer and children feel safe to change or experiment with what they are doing.
Language development- experimenting with language and descriptive words.
Develop social skills: practising negotiation skills, turn taking and sharing. Provides opportunities for working out problems and experimenting with solutions.
Encourages Imagination and creative play.

Let's get planting. Learning about nature and making our hands dirty!

Peg painting at our messy play table today!

Sand foam.
A mixture of sand and shaving cream.
New exciting texture and a sensory play that's promised to provide a fun learning experience.

Exploring different textures to promote our little hands stimulation.

Development of our fine motor skills are crucial for pencil grip! No better way than learning through play.

Coloured Spaghetti and Number Recognition!

Sensory bag learning!

Ooey, gooey, slushy and messy! Playing with jelly!

Playing with Jelly is a sensory activity for kids to explore through their senses the many wonderful textures and qualities of jelly.

We had 2 trays of jelly where the kids used plastic shape cutter, to mould shape and cut out the various shapes in the jelly. It was all hands on as kids giggled with excitement as their fingers touched the soft and smooth jelly.

Exploring the sense of touch! We talked about all the wonderful describing words of how the jelly felt in our hands. Squishy, sticky, slippery, slimey, sloppy and smooth. We joked about how it would feel to have a bath in a tub full of jelly.

We explored our other senses too: sense of smell, sight and hearing. The jelly smelt sweet and fruity, sounded like popping bubble wrap and looked colourful and lumpy! So much fun