Ideas for an interest table to promote the five senses for age group 2-3 years
 

Hi Please help,

Im currently doing NVQ level 3 CCLD and have been asked by my assessor to do an interest table to promote the five senses.
All the obvious things spring to mind like
Shells
Pebbles
Playdough
Beads and buttons
Fruit and vegatables
Jelly
Books
Musical Instruments and a few more

But i am still at a loss of thinking of any other ideas. I also need to try and pull in the cultural aspects aswell.

Please please help, any ideas will be very grateful as im a bit stuck :thumbsup:

Thankyou :cheerful:

books, musical instruments and foods can cover cultrual, noodles are good chinesse and have great sensory textures, treasure baskets chopsticks, textiles from differrent countries and cultures, hope this helps sorry but brain drain .

T

Hi, they sound good and T's right you can introduce culture with any of those themes by exploring what your children are familiar with and what's available in other countries.

Pebbles from an English beach, pebbles from Spain could enable you to provide spanish words, & english words, spanish dress/hat/jewellery and english counterparts. Have a bowl of water to explore how pebbles can change/darken their colour, add scent to it or herbs to float and crush ..

Hth xx

Hiya, thankyou for ur great ideas.
I love the idea with the pebbles in the water, i would never have thought of that, so i will be putting that on my table.
I have a better idea of what im going to do now

Thankyou :)