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Home » Space themed sensory tub

Space themed sensory tub

Published: Feb 17, 2016 by admin · This post may contain affiliate links or sponsored content

I’m feeling very aware at the moment that my children are growing up SO fast and I feel like I’m running out of time to do some of the activities that have been on my list for a very long time, so even though they are a little on the old side for a sensory tub, we made one anyway.

How to colour rice

  • I poured a good amount of rice into a sandwich bag, added a dollop of vinegar and a tablespoon of black food colouring, then shook it around until every grain was covered. I then poured the rice mix into an oven dish and left to dry.
  • One dry we stirred the rice, separated out the grains and added some sparkles and marbles which looked like planets.

First we matched our marbles to the planets they looked like the most and then arranged the “planets” around a yellow marble which was the sun.

rice sensory tub

We experimented with magnets, hiding the little discs under the rice and “rescuing” them with a magnet wand.

Magnet space tub

We then wrote numbers on stars and made up sums for each other, we each had to use the tweezers to choose the correct answer.

space sensory

Our tweezers are from Learning Resources and we LOVE them.

space sensory tub

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  1. JuggleMum, Nadine Hill

    February 18, 2016 at 1:10 pm

    What fun! I’ve never heard of sensory tubs before but this looks cool!

    Reply
  2. karen

    February 19, 2016 at 10:47 pm

    I love this idea, it looks fab x

    Reply

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