https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sun, 17 May 2026 10:45:31 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-the-child-who-loves-sensory-activities#post-2172758 Sat, 09 May 2015 09:28:42 +0000 peaches1038 2172758@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I just bought squigz for my nieces 4Th bday. The popping sound they make when you pull them apart is oddly satisfying and they feel nice in your hands. </p> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Squigz-Starter-24-piece-set/dp/B00DEBB3N0" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Squigz-Starter-24-piece-set/dp/B00DEBB3N0</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-the-child-who-loves-sensory-activities#post-2172687 Sat, 09 May 2015 07:43:04 +0000 Mrs. Bee 2172687@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>that's olive! a sandbox for sure, and other similar sensory texture toys like floam and modeling clay. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-the-child-who-loves-sensory-activities#post-2172654 Sat, 09 May 2015 06:37:30 +0000 Mrs. Goose 2172654@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>You could make bags for them to put in a small rubbermaid box if they have one or get them a little tub with different sensory materials in bags. E.g. Kidney beans, with cars, trucks, little sticks (constructiony type things). You can mix up a batch of "moondough" 8 cups flour: 1 cup baby oil with some little shovels or spoons.-It smells amazing and you can scuplt it, sort of like kinetic sand, but different. A bag of dirt with fake bugs and little fake plants. Water beads are also really really cool: <a href="http://waterbeads.net/buy-water-beads/" rel="nofollow">http://waterbeads.net/buy-water-beads/</a>. You can often find packs of multicoloured ones and they only take a day or two to soak up water and then you can put toys in with them, squeeze them, and bounce them in a little container. Hair gel mixed with food colouring (dollar store) in a ziploc bag. You can also provide a box or two of cornstarch and some food colouring bottles with a recipe for making "goop": <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Goop/" rel="nofollow">http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-Goop/</a> If you go the bags route you can give them different stuff they'll be able to play with at different times. On the plus side, all the stuff to mix up some different sensory bags and even buying a bin for the child probably won't be that pricey! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/gifts-for-the-child-who-loves-sensory-activities#post-2172640 Sat, 09 May 2015 05:18:06 +0000 mediagirl 2172640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For a child who finds the most joy playing with kinetic sand, play dough and sensory bins with colored rice, what would you get them for their birthday? </p>