After a recent visit to the aquarium where the children were fascinated with the sharks I decided to create a sensory tray based on the things we had seen.
Using food colouring I coloured some rice a blue and green colour and added in a few shells and some aquatic animals. The children thought this was great, immediately trying to identify their favourite animals before turning to the feel and texture of the rice.
It was fun to scoop up the rice with the shells and we talked about the sounds the rice made when it dropped back into the tray.
As ever, the older children were desperate to join in on their return from school and between them created an 'underwater tea party' comprising rice cakes from which they fed all the sea creatures!
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