Touch/Feel

Personal Social and Emotional

Talk about the purpose of touch and feeling and what we can use to feel things. Discuss how we have sensation all over our body not only our hands and how that helps us. Discuss hot and cold sensation and how our bodies protect us from hurting ourselves.

Communication and Language

Fill sensory bags with water and different objects including rice, pom poms, cotton wool, pasta and peas inside and discuss what they can feel like.  Using a box with a hand opening allow children to place their hands inside and feel the textures and the objects inside and describe what they are feeling.

Physical Development

Encourage children to use scissors to cut different materials such as jelly, play dough, cooked spaghetti, or grass. Use an activity tray containing gloop and encourage children to make finger marks.

Literacy

Look through feely board books where each page of the story has a different texture to feel and describe.

Mathematics

children to outline 2D shapes on each other’s back or palms and guess which shape they are drawing through feeling

Understanding of the World

Discuss hot and cold and how we react to the world around us in different environments such as touching something cold or being careful when touching something hot.

Expressive Art and Design

Encourage children to explore what can be felt in the outdoor environment and make imprints using play dough or clay. Use finger paint and feel the texture and create their own painting.

Focused Vocabulary

Touch, feeling, hands, warm, hot, cold, smooth, lumpy, rough, wet, dry, soft