We have been having so much fun using our senses to explore the shaving foam in the sensory tray this week. The children have spoken about how the foam smells, how it feels against their skin and what it looks like. Some children said, ‘it looks like snow’ and they discovered that they could make it look like falling snow if they clapped their foam covered hands together. Some of the children said it felt soft, sticky, fluffy and wet as they used their hands to feel the foam.
The children used their fingers to mark make and create lines, shapes, patterns and faces. When the children were finished playing and washed their hands, they were fascinated to see the foam sliding off their skin and disappearing down the plug hole and noiticing how the foam changed when water was added. The shaving foam provided endless fun in nursery and is a fun activity to try at home too.
I wonder what we could add to the foam for the children to explore next week…
