Having Fun the Sensory Way: Five Ideas to have Fun with Bubbles

Finding activities that someone with PMLD will really engage with can take a lot of trial and error, and a lot of kit. Most of what you need here is under the kitchen sink.

A teacher with 14 years in PMLD classrooms shows you five bubble activities, including long bubble snakes made with an old sock over a cut-off bottle. Each one stretches into a proper session. You'll offer choices of scent and colour, and give the person time to decide. You'll pause before each number in a count to three until they make a sound or a movement. And with a switch, they learn that pressing it makes the bubbles come.

It works at home, in a care setting or in a classroom. It's fun, too, and someone who's enjoying themselves takes in far more.