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Recycling: Creative Sensory Resource Ideas

Turn the socks, bottles and boxes heading for the recycling into sensory play for your child, most of it in minutes.

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Sensory toys can cost a fortune, and some get a glance before they're pushed aside. Meanwhile the recycling bin fills up with things that smell, rattle, shine and crinkle.

Start by looking at packaging with "sensory eyes" before it goes: a Marmite jar that still smells after 10 years, a nearly empty salt pot that sounds like waves, foil that catches the light. Then make something, usually with no sewing. Pull a holey sock over the end of a cut pop bottle and you've got a bubble "elephant's trunk". Poke holes in a milk carton, drop in some orange potpourri, and it's a scent bottle.

These are ideas a former special school teacher uses every week in her own sensory service, but she'd rather you went off and made your own, built around whatever your child loves.

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