Fun Sensory Activities

You can ask your local public librarian how to obtain these books or contact us to request them.

• Come and Play: Sensory-Integration Strategies for Children With Play Challenges

  Aerial Cross
  Redleaf Press, 2010.
  This book explores common play challenges and intervention techniques to use when you observe children struggling to play. Focusing on large motor and outdoor play activities, this book also includes background information and sensory-integration play tips from an experienced occupational therapist.

  LB 1139.5 .P55C76 2010 456178867
• Fun with Messy Play: Ideas and Activities for Children with Special Needs

  Tracey Beckerleg
  Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009
  Beckerleg describes activities that children find fun while they are improving their sensory awareness, coordination, communication, and social skills. This practical guide includes suggestions for using different types of equipment.

  GV 183.6 .B396 2009 226911629
• Positioning for Play: Interactive Activities to Enhance Movement and Sensory Exploration

  Rachel B. Diamant & Allison Whiteside
  Pro-ed, 2010
  This book for parents and early interventionists contains a collection of reproducible sheets detailing developmentally appropriate activities that enhance the movement, motor skills, and sensory abilities of young children experiencing a developmental delay.

  WS 350.4 .D537 2010 437298974

You can ask your local public librarian how to obtain these videos or contact us to request them.

• Applying Sensory Integration Principles Where Children Live, Learn And Play

  Narrator, Paul Trautman
  DVD (ca. 30 min.) 2003
  Los Angeles, CA: Pediatric Therapy Network
  Focuses on the application of sensory integration principles in a variety of settings such as the home, school and community for children with and without special needs.

  WE 104 .A652 2003 61256075

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• Say Yes to the Mess! Water Works

  Playing with materials such as water can be an important outdoor experience for preschoolers. When children play with water, they can build fine- and gross-motor skills. They can also apply some basic principles of science and engineering.  Also in Spanish and Polish.