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Sensory Play Recipes

Making Sensory Play Recipes at home is a frugal and simple way to have hours of fun with your kids. Creating our own play materials is by far one of my families favorite ways to spend a day at home together. We could seriously create with play recipes daily!

Playing with your kids does not need to be messy, complicated, or expensive. Plus this play is a fantastic way to sneak in some sensory integration to your play!

Bubbly Watermelon Sensory Foam for Kids

June 22, 2016 by Stephanie Oswald
Watermelon Soap Foam Bubbles Sensory Play from Parenting Chaos

Soap Foam has been one of those things that have been on my to-do list since the first time that I saw it in a classroom recipe book binder. It’s also one of those sensory bins that I have always just kinda put off because something shinier catches my eye. It’s just like a bubble … Read more

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Homemade Chocolate Moonsand

November 8, 2025June 16, 2016 by Stephanie Oswald
Make some home made chocolate moonsand with this easy recipe for a wonderful sensory play experience for kids! This recipe only uses 3 simple ingredients and it's gluten free so all can play.

The other day after making our Frozen Fizzy ABC Sensory Bin, we had a bit of leftover baking soda paste. Instead of throwing it away we set it aside to make this super fun Chocolate Moonsand. The kids had an absolute blast playing with this simple sensory bin! The idea to make this actually came … Read more

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Rainbow Dyed Chickpeas

August 30, 2018June 14, 2016 by Stephanie Oswald
Rainbow Dyed Chickpeas are a quick and easy sensory bin filler that kids will love!

For the last year we have been trying out different types of sensory play fillers and experimenting with how to dye them. To date, these Acrylic Rainbow Dyed Chickpeas have been the easiest to dye and quickest to dry! One of the things that I loved about these is that they were so bright and … Read more

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Chocolate Soap Foam

November 8, 2025June 10, 2016 by Stephanie Oswald
This Chocolate Soap Foam is a super easy and fun sensory play bin for kids, and it is perfect for cooling down!

Lately, the humidity here has been insane. As such we have been looking for any and every way to cool down while playing outside without flooding the yard running sprinklers. With it raining here almost every night I would have a mud pit for a backyard if I were to do that. In our hunt … Read more

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Orange Scented Soap Foam

June 5, 2016 by Stephanie Oswald
MakeOrange Scented soap foam with the kids for a super engaging sensory activity

This year summer has been a really rough transition for us. For the last couple weeks, I have heard nonstop about the evils of summers and how my daughter wants nothing to do with leaving second grade and growing up. Until today that is. Today on her first official day of summer break she finally … Read more

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