Sensory boxes will give your growing baby important tactile sensations. At a tender age, the baby receives information about the world through sensations: touches, feels, tastes, knocks, throws, crumples.
The variety of textures of the surrounding world gives the baby knowledge. Sukhomlinsky also said - "the mind is at the tip of your fingers." And for good reason. During tactile play, the child develops all the senses: touch, sight, hearing, speech centers.
Sensory boxes will be an excellent assistant in the development of fine motor skills and tactile sensations.
Sensory boxes for children from 0 to 2 years old
The sensory box is an affordable and inexpensive toy that has tremendous potential. It doesn't take a lot of time to create it, all the materials are at our fingertips. But how many emotions and skills she gives to the child!
Let's see what a sensory box is. I will tell you with our example.
A sensory box is any container filled with various tactile objects or liquids. You can supplement the box with tools (scoops, cups, pipettes, etc.), and characters for role-playing games.
How to fill the sensor box?
It all depends on the age of the child. For Sofia, at 5-6 months, I made very fast sensory boxes from various household items.
Examples of sensor boxes for babies up to a year
A box with various round objects: cloth and rubber balls, spiked balls, fruits, walnuts.
Multi-colored lego details.
This is one of my favorite sensor boxes. Bright details stimulate vision. Lego noisy - develops hearing. Sofiyka poured Lego on the floor, shrugged with handles inside the box, tried to put the fallen parts back. A lot of work for a small head.
Small cups with beans, pasta or buckwheat. Here under strict supervision. But I was lucky. At this age, Sonya very rarely pulled beans into her mouth. This process began with her later, right there, an eye and an eye behind her.
Lids for baby puree, with pieces of fabric of different texture glued to them.
You can group items by color. Make a yellow, red box, putting toys, cloth, household items in it of the corresponding color.
The main thing in creating a sensory box for babies is that the objects are large and different in tactile sensations.
And don't forget the variety! To make the child interesting change the contents of the sensor boxes more often.
How to fill the sensor box for a child after a year?
The kid has grown up, and now there is where to roam mom's fantasy. All kitchen groceries will be used. Groats! Yes, different cereals. And also beans, lentils, peas, mung bean, pasta, nuts, flaxseeds, salt, starch.
Cereals can be dyed. And even necessary. This is easy to do. I have already told you.
What else besides groceries can you fill the sensor box with?
- shaving foam / jelly;
- sand (natural or kinetic);
- pebbles or pebbles of different sizes;
- water / ice / snow;
- sequins / cut paper / pieces of fabric, different textures;
- cotton balls / pom-poms;
- colored paper clips / buttons / curly beads;
- aqua primer (hydrogel);
- pebbles for the aquarium / marbles.
All this can be mixed in different volumes and proportions to create even more effective tactile sensations.
But even this is not enough for a year-old. Need a game, a process! Therefore, we add bowls, cups, spoons, scoops, a sieve, a funnel to the cereals. We hide small toys in the groats. And that's it! The child is carried away for a long time. With such a small set, you can think of an unimaginable number of games.
Yes. Size matters. Just above, I talked about diversity. Use different containers. For example, Anyuta often played with us. Here and massage, and fine motor skills.
Sensory role-playing boxes
From about 1.5 years old, and maybe even earlier, you can turn the sensory box into an interesting role-playing game. If a year old is happy to just sort and pour peas, enthusiastically pour it from bowl to bowl, bury and find toys, then a two year old will get tired of it pretty quickly.
Therefore, we connect imagination and create a real world from the sensor box. Any! We focus on the interests of your child.
Let's dream up?
We pour water into a basin, put fish, a boat, a couple of little men there. At the bottom we throw colored stones for the aquarium, you can even put artificial algae. The underwater world is ready!
The same underwater world will turn out if you take jelly, tinted in blue, as a basis. Put figures of animals in it in advance to freeze.
Or shaving foam. It is white, but you give the child water mixed with blue dye and a dropper. Cap-drip on the foam with colored water! Voila! Magic! The foam turned blue. Here it is - the sea. We put a shark, a whale, ships there. And we play.
We did a wonderful job. And very tactile. We used peas, blue rice, aquarium algae, wood cuts, sticks, walnuts, marbles, a papier-mâché cave and, of course, dinosaur figures.
Anya played with such a world carefully. And Sonya mixed everything quickly. But this did not stop her playing.
By analogy, you can make a farm, a zoo, a forest thicket, a clearing with insects and flowers. Whatever your fantasy desires.
And how many interesting sensor boxes you can come up with with hydrogel and kinetic sand.
Advice: Line the floor with oilcloth or a large piece of cloth before playing with the sensor box. So you will remove the consequences of the game much faster. My kids are more likely to go outside the box, moving to the lid and floor, pushing the boundaries of the game.
Tell us, do you make sensory boxes for children? Share your ideas in the comments!
At an early age, it contributes to the full development of the baby. For stimulating tactile sensations, a baby sensor box is ideal. Kids look at various objects with pleasure, touch them with their hands, pull them into their mouths. This feature of theirs can be skillfully used by offering them sensory boxes for children to play. With your own hands, you can make many different options that will be of interest to kids and give scope for the flight of the parents' imagination.
Where did the touch boxes come from?
This toy originated in the USA. There, their various analogues have been used for a long time, but they came to us relatively recently. The world famous teacher and developer of early development methods Maria Montessori recommends that parents make such developmental toys themselves, taking into account the age, level of development and interests of the child. What is a baby sensor box? At its core, this is a home sandbox filled with a variety of materials at hand.
Invaluable benefit
Such a simple device contributes to the full and all-round development of the child, starting from 6 months. There is no upper age limit, as this is an exciting activity for people of different ages. Kids, on the other hand, shift objects from one handle to another, which develops motor skills, trains fingers. With the help of this toy, they master the shapes, colors, density and other properties of objects. Sorting through objects in a box teaches the baby patience, develops perseverance and attention, and improves coordination.
If the baby does not just fumble in a box with different objects, and at the same time parents or older children pronounce their names, color, shape and other qualities, then the baby's vocabulary improves, memory trains, it is formed.It is important to pronounce the properties of each object, give it a characteristic : hard, cold, loose, etc.
DIY sensor boxes for children are easy to make. In addition, they help not only the development of the baby, but also contribute to the creative development of the mother. After all, new ideas for boxes come up all the time.
How old should you start?
There is no age limit for fun with sensory boxes. The baby can be allowed to play with them as soon as he begins to sit on his own. The only condition is that sensor boxes for children from 6 months to 2 years old must contain items that are appropriate for the age of the baby. All contents must be absolutely safe for the child so that he cannot accidentally swallow, choke or break the object. At an older age, you can safely add small details. When your child is in school, you can build a mini-lab in a box for various experiments.
How to make a sensor box yourself?
The base of the sensor box is any container that fits the size. It can be a plastic container, a basin, a large cup. In the yard, you can make a sandpit or use an inflatable pool.
Fillers for the sensor box can be different: cereals, beans, sand, pasta, plasticine, pebbles, shaving foam, grass, cones, dough, jelly, water. You can put beads of different sizes and colors, small toys, buttons, lids from jars and bottles.
To make it more interesting to play, you can use various tools: rakes, shovels, spoons, strainers. Items from a set of children's dishes are suitable for this.
Knowing how to make a sensory box for a child, you can turn on your imagination and start creating an exciting fairy tale for your child. Each child is unique, and parents, knowing the characteristics of their child, can make educational toys that can cause a special delight in the crumbs. There can be no bad ideas for equipping sensor boxes.
First boxes for babies
Having learned to sit, the little one looks with interest at the objects around him, pulls everything into his mouth, trying to taste the world around him. From now on, you can give him the first boxes. At this age, it is especially important to pay attention to the contents so that all items are safe. A regular plastic cup or small basket can be filled with pyramid rings, balls of different sizes, cubes. The main thing is that objects differ in shape, color and composition. Sorting through them, the baby develops Mommy or older children can at this time pronounce the names of objects, their shape or give a characteristic to the chosen crumbs. Do not fill the container to the brim. The kid will quickly get tired and he will lose interest in the toy. Better to constantly change the contents of the box.
You can put containers with different fillers in different places. When the baby finds them, he will study the contents, giving the mother time to do household chores. You can put round objects in one, soft toys in the other, rattles in the third.
Boxes for children from a year
In a year, the child is no longer so actively pulling into his mouth everything that falls into his hands. But he is ready to shift, pour, scatter and pour to rapture. During this period, you can add cereal or sand fillers to the boxes. In them, you can "hide" larger objects, looking for which, the baby will massage his fingers and get new sensations. He can even stomp his feet on the free-flowing filler, which will have a beneficial effect on his health.
Such sensory boxes for 1 year old children contribute to the development of fine motor skills, coordination, and grasping movements. The accuracy of each movement is practiced. The baby can be offered to arrange objects in containers by color or divide them by shape, teach the baby to actively use the tools for playing. Can be buried or dug out with a spatula. If the filler is sand, then you can make Easter cakes.
Features of touch boxes for children 2 years and older
A toddler who has reached the age of 2 years can already speak some words. The child will love the theme boxes. For example, you can make a farm. To do this, you should install in the box figures of pets and containers for "food" and "water". So the child will study pets, and at the same time feed and water them. And what a delight the boy will have with the sensor box, which has a track for cars. You can make road markings, hills and obstacles.
A child of any age loves to play with water; you can arrange a home car wash for all cars or other toys in the house. Add bathing foam to the warm water poured into the basin, and the game will be filled with vivid impressions. Mom needs to spread out a waterproof oilcloth in advance so as not to flood the neighbors from below, and put a towel next to it, which will wipe off both the toys and the child's hands. By playing with the water, the baby also learns that some objects sink and others float. They can be caught out of the water with a slotted spoon. For games, you can buy a set of fish and a magnetic rod, boats and other toys for water in the store.
In winter, you can fill the basin with clean snow. The kid will need to put on warm little things and mittens so that he does not catch a cold. Snow can be sculpted using shovels and molds for Easter cakes. Snow can be watered with dyes and watch how they spread, staining the snowdrift.
At pet supply stores, you can buy sawdust or small wood shavings that will serve as an environmentally friendly base for your sensor box. In flower and fertilizer departments, you can buy hydrogel. This jelly-like mass will give your baby an incomparable sensation. It is pleasant to the touch and at the same time safe for health. With this filler, you can create a swamp, river or beach by forming a variety of themed sensory boxes.
How are such activities useful for children? Kids play with enthusiasm without demanding attention. At the same time, they experience new sensations, discover a new world for themselves.
Time of co-creation
As the baby grows up, he can also participate in the creation of the sensory box. It will be interesting for him to recreate a small world from his favorite fairy tale. For example, before the New Year, you can make a box with a Christmas tree, tinsel, gifts and cones hidden in the bowels of the box. For Easter, you can line the bottom with soft grass and lay eggs in it, which were also painted with children (for babies, it is better to take packages from kinders or wooden blanks for eggs).
Fans of cartoons can recreate the plot by building a house for SpongeBob and his friends. Figures of the characters themselves can be bought at toy stores. Fans of the popular game about angry birds can make a clearing for battle by constructing obstacles and barricades for pigs out of blocks and launch birds. You can build a zoo, while the kid can help make aviaries and decorate the territory. The sensory box for children is the result of co-creation, brings families closer together and stimulates imagination. Various items are used in the manufacture: matches, twigs, cotton wool, egg packaging, plastic bottles and food containers, as well as everything that can be found in the house and brought from the street.
Sensor boxes for older age
After 4-5 years, the child can already fantasize, he already knows a lot and shows interest in studying planets, dinosaurs and other objects, and also develops the skills of counting. Sensory boxes for different ages can stimulate a child's interest in certain topics. You can recreate the prehistoric world in which dinosaurs live by building an ancient landscape on a free-flowing filler, planting trees, and laying a river bed. Dinosaurs can walk along the slope of a volcano, which is easy to make from available tools. It is enough to disguise a small container under a layer of plasticine or salt dough, pour the diluted dye into it and add baking soda. Before the "eruption", pour in a small amount of vinegar and enjoy the process.
The fillers for the sensor boxes can be dyed in different colors. To do this, soak in food coloring for 30 minutes of the selected time. After the specified time, drain the water, and dry the filler on a newspaper. Colorful rice or sand will add variety and additional interest to the game.
You can use sand plasticine to play, which is easy to make yourself or buy in a store. For manufacturing, sifted clean sand is needed. You should take 1 tbsp for a glass of sand. flour, ¼ st. salt, ground in a coffee grinder, a spoonful of sunflower oil and citric acid. Pour all this mass with ¾ glasses of boiling water and knead thoroughly. Such sand does not stick to hands and at the same time is flexible and pleasant to the touch.
You can mix shaving foam with baking soda and you get a stunning mass in texture. It is difficult to say the exact recipe, but the mass should roll well into balls and not get your hands dirty. Even after drying, this mass is suitable for use, but already as a filler.
If you mix sand with starch in a ratio of 4: 2 and add 1 part of water, you get a wonderful one that is ideal for cakes and construction. It can be colored with dyes diluted in water.
A touchscreen can be created for one game, or it can be used many times. You can cover it and put it on the shelf until next time. Fillers and other interesting box parts can be stored in jars so that everything is at hand when creating a new masterpiece.
A sensory box for children is an opportunity to captivate a child, and mommy to show imagination and love. You can create new variations of the game that you never get tired of.
A child's mind is at his fingertips. This means that the baby learns the world and develops speech through the fingers: he needs to touch, touch, try, splash everything. A universal thing for tactile play is a home sandbox or sensor box... The sensory box is a container filled with all kinds of tactile material.
Who are sensory boxes suitable for?
Sensory boxes are suitable for preschool children when sensory play is most effective. But this does not mean at all that you cannot make such a box for primary school children.
For babies up to 2 years old, simple sensor boxes with large objects are suitable. For older children, you can do touch themed boxes.
Why is the sensor box useful?
- Develops fine motor skills, tactile sensations, creative and spatial thinking, sorting and classification skills, perseverance, patience, coordination of movements and much more.
- This is a great opportunity to expand your vocabulary and use some new words (slippery, gritty, slimy, leathery, etc.) or comparisons to express ideas (feel like ...).
- Helps you learn math: counting, grouping, sorting, measuring and weighing are just a few of the math benefits of the sensor box.
- Helps the study of color, shape, texture.
- Helps children to manage their emotions, soothes.
- Teaches cooperation and conflict resolution if several children are playing with the box at the same time.
- Helps to cope with childhood fears. For example, a child can cope with fear of insects by playing with plastic insects.
- Provides endless possibilities for creative play: kids can play with objects however they see fit.
- Promotes interest in science: Sensory boxes can be a great way to stimulate a love of science with materials such as rocks, sand, water, and more.
Advantages of sensor boxes
Touch boxes have a number of advantages that allow them to be widely used at home. So, sensor boxes:
- do not take much time to prepare;
- do not take up much space;
- do not require financial investments;
- provide many opportunities for learning;
- are a great addition to;
- any mom can do it.
How to make a sensor box
Rules for creating a sensor box
There is one very important rule you should know about building sensory boxes - NO BAD IDEAS! This is the most fun thing for parents to be creative! There is no wrong way to build a sensor box.
The content depends on the baby's age, character, interests and preferences, the topic of the class.
The child should not be limited only by the perimeter of the box. Let him lay out the contents outside of the box.
Toddlers should only play with the box under adult supervision.
Caution: Before creating sensory boxes, make sure your child is not allergic to any component.
To create a sensor box you will need:
- capacity: plastic container, bowl, cardboard box, large bowl and so on;
- filler: any tactile material (free-flowing, liquid, soft, and so on);
- various elements: toys and objects;
- pouring instruments, transfusions(scoops, spoons, molds, buckets and so on).
Filler
- All kinds of cereals: buckwheat, rice (regular and colored), millet, pearl barley, semolina, oatmeal.
- Legumes: beans, peas, lentils.
- Pasta, flour, sugar, salt, starch.
- Ground coffee and beans, tea.
- Natural material: sand, earth, clay, fresh grass and hay, leaves, shavings and sawdust, stones, feathers.
- Water filler: plain and carbonated water, ice, snow, milk, soap solution, oil.
- Paper: pieces of paper and foil, confetti, streamer.
- Textiles and sewing accessories: ribbons, laces, ropes, pieces of fabric, beads, buttons.
- Cotton wool, cotton pads, pieces of foam rubber and sponges.
- Jelly, jelly, hydrogel, shaving foam, cream.
- Homemade fillers:, and others.
5 sensor boxes for yearlings
Treasures for one-year-old kids are not toys, but various household items, so we make boxes taking into account age characteristics.
Box with balls
This is a sensory game in which the child tries to identify objects inside the box with only his hands and touch. No filler required.
How to do:
- We take a small cardboard box with a lid (for example, from an electric kettle or iron).
- We glue the box on all sides with multi-colored paper.
- We make 2 round holes on opposite sides of the box (the size of the hole is such that the child's hand can pass freely).
- We fill the box with balls of different sizes and materials. Such balls can be purchased at pet stores (hard, soft, jingle, rattling, slime balls, etc.).
Jars
We fill the container with tactile material (for example, cotton wool, ribbons, pieces of foam rubber or large pasta). We put various jars:
Do you want to play with your child easily and with pleasure?
- plastic jars with a lid for vitamins;
- tea cans;
- small containers from kinder surprises and shoe covers;
- cases from rings and earrings and so on.
It will be very interesting for the kids to sort out everything, open the lids.
Jewelry touch box
Put in the filler:
- elastic bands, headbands for hair;
- safe hairpins, crabs;
- old jewelry: beads, bracelets, chains;
- mirror and comb.
Sticky box
Put pieces of Velcro tape (Velcro), pieces of scotch tape and electrical tape in a container without filler.
Magnetic box
Place all the fridge magnets in the filler. Ready!
20 Themed Touch Box Ideas
- Colors
- Seasons (you will find an example of games with the "Winter" sensor box)
- Sorting (how to fill the geometric sensor box, you can find out)
- Alphabet
- Sound boxes
- Aroma boxes
- Holidays
- Treasure hunt
- Underwater world
- Fishing
- Garden Garden
- Farm in a box
- The world of dinosaurs (you can see an example of making such a box)
- Space
- Construction
- Washing animals or cars
- Animals
- Insects
When the child is 2 years old, themed touch boxes can be used for role-playing games.
A new and very simple toy has come to us from distant states - sensor box... This is what all children dream about, but for some reason parents do not always guess about it. But after all give a child a bowl of happiness very simple! So is the sensor box a basin? It could be a bowl, bowl, saucepan, plastic container, or wooden box. A filler is poured into this container (poured, crumbles ...), various objects and tools are placed. This is a miniature sandbox that is not limited only to sand and beads.
The home sandbox may contain any filler: wheat, buckwheat, oatmeal, millet, semolina, peas, beans, lentils, salt (large and small), pasta (shells, spirals, tubes, flowers, bows, alphabet, stars and others), seeds, flour or corn starch , cornflakes, nuts, dough (salted and regular), snow, ice, bumps, acorns, threads (long and cut into small pieces), paper napkins (torn into pieces, whole or crumpled into small balls), sand (dry and wet), scraps of cloth, boiled spaghetti, grass, leaves and other natural materials, pebbles and all sorts of small stones, soil, aqua soil, pieces of foam rubber, cotton balls, cut paper, straw, soapy water, water, shaving foam, buttons, wooden shavings.
In addition to the filler, other items are placed in the sensory box to play with. Perfect fit small figures of animals and people, cubes, rings, balls, scraps, small boxes, pebbles, toy fruits, artificial and real plants, wooden letters and numbers, shovels, spoons, rakes, bowls, cups, tongs, water pear, sieve, funnel. It is important that there are few items... It is better to change the contents of the sensor box several times than to give out all the items at once. After all, the child needs a place to freely pour the filler, trample the paths with figures, in general, a place for free play.
Exactly free play so attracts kids to the sensory box. You can explore the properties of the filler, observe the pouring (transfusion), find objects and bury them again, or just play the farm or space. From parents only you need to change the filler on time, because the monotony is boring. But for us, parents, it plays into the hands! We can come up with sensory boxes for the holidays, adjust to the topics we study; use new toys and find a use for old ones; we can take it with us to the dacha and to the sea, or we can simply put the remnants of pasta and cereals into the box, freeing up the kitchen cabinet :)
They say she invented this game. Although it seems to me that attentive parents have always used it in one way or another. It turns out that she develops tactile sensations, imagination, attention, perseverance, coordination of movements. Most modern methods of early development pay a lot of attention to small objects, touching, sorting out loose substances and other tactile games. And not for nothing: the property of the psyche of a small child is such that he receives most of the information empirically, that is, through his own sensations. And one more thing: the part of the brain that is responsible for speech is closely connected with the palms and fingers. This means that playing with cereals and small objects, the baby not only learns the world, but also develops speech.
What else is the sensor box universal? By age.
From 6 months
You can give the first box to a baby who has already learned to sit. Put shreds, rattles, balls, small stuffed toys, a plastic cup in it. Anything! The main thing is that things are clean, large enough(such masks have a reflex to pull everything into their mouths), different to the touch and, of course, interesting. You can use a small plastic bowl, bowl, or shallow wicker basket as a container. The goal is to give the child as many different tactile sensations, develop fingers and pens in general.
First sensor box
1-2 years
When the child stopped pulling everything into his mouth, he smaller items can be given, cereals, sand, dough. The size of the container can be increased. Be sure to add items and show you what to do with them. For example, pour rice into a box and pour a dozen cubes. Have the kid reach them with a pen. If he can do it easily, suggest doing the same with spoons or slotted spoon... Did you manage it too? Show how to sort large and small items into jars. In general, now goal of the game- to develop coordination of movements and fine motor skills, as well as to simultaneously learn to distinguish objects by size, color, properties. Closer to two years, you can create a certain theme in the box. For example, take plates, spoons, pet figures and feed them; pour sand into the box, dig holes and plant plants; put children's dishes in a box, pour cereals, pasta and other "pouches" of different sizes and shapes, and cook soup. There is also room for parental imagination :)
Here are 7 of our sensor boxes that Ksenia was delighted with:
1. The most common farm: peas, plastic animal figurines, artificial plants, spoons, plates. Spoon the peas and plants into a plate, feed the animals.
We involve dad in the case. Children are very fond of playing with dad, because he is often the main authority :)
Feed the pets
Play together
2. Cubes, wooden figurines... It is easy to get them out of the cereal with your hands and a spoon.
Wooden figurines in peas
It is safe to walk on them. It is lovely massage for small feet.
Massage for legs
3. Rings of different diameters, small figures, a wooden spoon and a cup.
The rings can be hidden in the croup and taken out of it, something can be threaded into them. Grab the rings with a spoon or pour the cereal into a cup.
Sensory box with peas and rings
4. Beautiful glass balls of different sizes... Spoon the balls into a bowl. We sort the balls into jars.
Sensor box with glass balls
Sorting large and small balls
5. Pets. We use tasks: “Find the dog”, “Where is the horse hidden?”. We pour the animals into a bucket with a spatula.
House sandbox
We play the farm
6. Games with snow. I filled a large box with snow from the balcony. She put on mittens and gave Xenia spoons, shovels, rakes. Then she painted the snow with diluted food colors. The child was very busy for half an hour ...
Sensory box with snow
Sensory box with colored snow
Snow with food coloring
7.. We take out the animals from the bottom with a strainer. We launch the boats from the cupcake molds. We observe floating and sinking objects. We take out what floats with our hands or a strainer.
Bathing animals
Is it floating or sinking?
Wooden figurines and rubber animals
Sinking or floating?
Over 2 years old
When a child begins to imagine and invent something, play with dolls, already knows different animals, cartoon characters and other characters, he can be carried away role-playing games
The sensor box is a great material for children to play with. It can be done in just a few minutes, and there are so many options for a variety of games. The site "Mom can do everything!" collected the best ideas for making sensor boxes, as well as 4 recipes for artificial snow. With it you will create a truly winter box.
Artificial Snow Recipe for Sensor Box
- Water + potato starch - mix together in a 1: 5 ratio. The result is sticky, crunchy snow that is so enjoyable to play.
- Vegetable oil + starch - we also mix, this snow is even more pleasant to the touch.
- Butter and flour. Mix 2 cups flour and 1/4 oil thoroughly.
- Shaving foam and soda. Mix one packet of baking soda with a whole bottle of foam. It turns out cold and wet snow.
Snow can also be made from scrap materials: cotton wool, polystyrene, salt, semolina, rice.
To make the box even more wintery, make artificial ice from gelatin, water and gouache. Mix 10 grams of gelatin with a glass of water, leave to swell. Then heat on the stove to dissolve the gelatin, add gouache and leave to harden. This thick jelly will not melt at room temperature. It is quite elastic and slippery, just like real ice.
The winter sensor box may contain:
- deer,
- Christmas trees,
- penguins,
- Father Frost,
- Snow Maiden,
- the Bears,
- and other animals and attributes.
Sensory box for babies from 1 year old
I took a plastic food container as a box. V 
it contains only snow from starch and water, a few plastic animals and small stones. My daughter watched attentively as I "run" as little animals in the snow, then it occurred to me to bury them. My daughter armed herself with a plastic spoon from a set of pans and began excavating. She dug them up and buried them, having received a second container, she began to pour snow. After 15 minutes of my delighted excitement, I got bored. After 30 I already regretted that I had not prepared the book, after 40 I began to think about how to complete this process ... In general, this version of the winter sensor box was very successful, I think I will repeat it somehow.
And here are some more winter box ideas for children from 2 to 7 years old.
