Sensory Play Benefits

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• Strengthens hand and finger muscles: critical for early-writing 

• Improves speech and social skills

• Fine-motor skills

• Calming effects 

• Amazing benefits when upset, angry and frustrated

• Releases excess energy

• Therapeutic: eases tension 

• Encourages creativity: creating scenes with their themes 

• Enhances hand-eye coordination

• Supports numeracy and literacy: making shapes and counting

• Promotes focus

• Supports problem solving skills

• Encourages imagination

• Developing and enhancing memory functions

• Learning sensory: soft, dry, sticky, cold, warm, hot, etc.

• Improves vocabulary