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Get messy with shaving foam and waterbeads in our Sensory Soup recipe for back to school letter recognition fun. <\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve made it past the half way point now in our school summer holidays over here in Ireland, so it\u2019s time to start putting a learning twist into some of our arts and crafts\u00a0activities to help the boys prepare for the new school year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Freddie is starting out in Junior Infants this September, so I\u2019ve been spending lots of time with him making sure that he is confident in writing and spelling his name.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve been getting him to practise writing his name using different materials such as pencils, crayons, pens, chalk, building it with bricks, cutting it out of play-dough with letter cutters and tracing it in sand with his fingers. To involve his big brother as well, who will be going into 1st\u00a0Class, I have been working with him on spelling and writing out our surname and practising all of the sight words he learnt last year. I have tried to do most of these activities when my toddler has been napping to allow the boys to concentrate a bit more and not have to worry about her running off with their pencils etc\u2026<\/p>\n

For more activities suitable for Back to School preparation check out our\u00a0Fine Motor Fishing<\/a>\u00a0(using giant tweezers) and Free Printable Summer Learning Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Today I decided to add a sensory element to a name and word learning activity for my two sons. I cooked up some \u201cSensory Soup\u201d for them to go fishing in for letters to make their names.\u00a0\u00a0To make the soup I mixed together water-beads, shaving foam and glitter and added in our special ingredient, plastic letters. \u00a0Then in order to give the boys an activity each to play with at the same time, I also emptied out a tin of alphabet spaghetti into a dish for them to play around with and make words from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

My 6 year old set off with the shaving foam and waterbeads \u201cSensory Soup,\u201d fishing out the correct letters to make up his full-name. He really enjoyed feeling the smooth and silky textures of the shaving foam and the water-beads mixed together. This was the first time that we had combined the two. It seemed to be taking him a good while to finish off his name though and he was starting to get a bit frustrated, as he couldn\u2019t find the last letter he needed to finish off our surname. I eventually found it for him on the floor; it hadn\u2019t even made it into the soup, so the poor boy had had no chance of completing his task!<\/div>\n
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My 4 year really enjoyed playing with the alphabet spaghetti. When we have this for lunch he often has fun fishing out the letters for his name, so this was really a fun extension to this activity. \u00a0He did complain that it felt very cold though, so on reflection I maybe should have given it a quick blast in the microwave to warm it up a bit first.<\/p>\n

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They then swapped over their activities.\u00a0\u00a0My 6 year old was much quicker picking his letters out of the spaghetti, but he did say that he preferred the feel of the \u201cSensory Soup\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0My 4 year old loved the \u201cSensory Soup\u201d as well, but he did need a bit more help finding some of his letters. He didn\u2019t have quite enough patience to dig though all of the letters to find the ones he needed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u00a0The boys then asked if they could combine the two activities to see what type of mixture that would make and I thought why not? Whilst I took the letters to one side to clean up, the boys tipped the alphabet spaghetti into the \u201cSensory Soup\u201d and then they had a good squash and squeeze around with it.\u00a0\u00a0They did lots of giggling whilst doing this together, so all in all this was a successful hour spent together whilst their little sister had her nap.<\/div>\n
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For even more shaving foam fun then please check our Invitation to make Messy Sundaes<\/a>\u00a0and Pretend Baking for Toddlers\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/div>\n
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