post#1 Sand Play- Make Sense
SAND PLAY – MAKE SENSE’S If you’ve ever thought that buying toys for your kids seems like a cycle of desperate pestering followed by boredom, how about considering sand as a toy. Playing in the sand can be a great opportunity for children to have unstructured playtime. Sand is a fascinating material for a child, it can be made hard or it can be left soft, it can flow or it can be solid, sand itself offers endless possibilities for a child’s imagination. Apart from being fun it also provides countless developmental benefits to the little ones. Fine Motor Development Sand is the perfect natural resource for developing fine motor skills - building strength and control. Part of fine motor development is when children learn how to hold objects in their hands, they begin to develop small muscles, particularly in their fingers which help them to grip and control pens and pencils. Tactile Sense Sand play is particularly beneficial for developing a sense of textures. The contrast it creat...