Sensory Activities

1. Colour

• Use the colours and nature laminate to give young people a colour range that you want them to go away and find.
• Create your own version of the colour wheel using the items found.
• Or using some sticks create on the floor some ‘picture frames’ so that they can use the items they find to create a picture which can be what every they like but shows  off the colours they were given.
  

2. Sound

• Get the young people to identify all the sounds they hear in a given time frame, see how many different noises they hear besides the rumble of the M5.
  

3. Touch

• Feel the different trees bark as you go around, understand the differences.
• Use the Touch Scavenger Hunt and find all the things on it.

4. Blindfold game

• Split group into pairs.
• One child chooses a tree while the partner is blindfolded.  First child leads partner to the tree and blindfolded child explores the tree to ‘get to know it’. 
• Both children return to start point and the blindfold is removed,  children then try to find their trees by remembering size smell form texture etc. 
• Repeat for the other child and another tree.
  

5. Sight

• Find any area where the trees overhang the ground not hard at Glenny.  Explain that you are going to go on a tree top walk and you will need your magic mirror to keep safe.  Give each child a cd and check that they can hold it at chin or end of nose level and look into it to see the objects above them. 
• Take the children down to the woods and form a follow my leader line one hand on th shoulder of the child in front on hand holding the CD in place. 
• Take the children for a walk under and between the trees commenting on things you can see above.
• CDs for sight activitiy in the draw can be used shiny side up.

To book the Sensory Activities information sheets please go to OSM either direct or via our bookings page