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Neon Food Colouring

Make biscuits with your learners in your sensory room, themed as a Witch’s kitchen.

Then, create little potions by mixing neon food colourings with icing sugar and water to decorate your biscuits. The colours pop and look truly magical under a UV light.

Fluorescent playdough is a visually brilliant material for sensory play in a sensory room or dark room under UV light, and it is super simple to make.

RECIPE

2 cups of flour

1 cup of salt

2 tablespoons of cream of tartar

2 tablespoons of cooking oil

Up to 1.5 cups of boiling water

Fluorescent Paint

METHOD

Add 2 cups of flour to a bowl.

Add 1 cup of salt, 2 tablespoons of cream of tartar and 2 tablespoons of cooking oil to the flour.

Squeeze a good amount of fluorescent paint into the mixture.

Mix all the ingredients.

Slowly add small amounts of boiling water to the dry ingredients stirring them together until it forms a dough.

Take the dough out and knead it with your hands. You will see the colour of your dough begin to come through as you knead it.

If your dough is too sticky, add more flour; if it is too dry, add more water.

Leave your dough to cool down.

Once cool, store it in an airtight container until ready to use.

You will need a UV light and a dark room to see the full effects of your fluorescent playdough.

Amazon has a huge selection of UV lighting to suit all budgets.

WHAT YOU NEED

A free-standing clothes rail

A selection of neon beads – You can buy these from Amazon. Click on the link below.

NEON BEADS AMAZON

Pearl white beads – These glow well under UV light. You can buy them from Amazon by the metre. Click on the link below.

PEARL WHITE BEADS AMAZON

Sharp scissors

Tie Wraps

UV Light

Sensory/dark room

HOW TO MAKE

Make your necklaces into long strands by cutting them once.

Cut your pearl white beads to match the length of your neon beads.

Secure the beads to the top of the rail with a tie wrap. Alternating each colour.

Cut off the end of the tie wraps with a pair of scissors. Make sure there are no sharp bits of plastic left sticking out.

Switch on your UV light!

SENSORY ROOM IDEAS

HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT SENSORY ROOM FOR YOUR CHILD

https://www.angi.com/articles/sensory-room-ideas.htm

DRAW WITH STARS

Draw With Stars is a super simple cause & effect app with twinkling sound effects. Touch the screen to make individual stars appear. Touch and hold the screen to make a trail of stars appear. You can change the size and colour of the stars too.

Available from the App Store

ROCKETS & PLANETS FOR BABIES

Rockets & Planets for babies is a fab app for a Space theme. Choose from five different with different rockets.

Tap on the screen to choose your planet, assemble your rocket by moving the top onto the bottom, and watch your rocket launch.

SAGO MINI SPACE EXPLORER

Use your finger to move Harvey, the space explorer, through space. Play among the planets and the stars and discover lots of surprises. Fly around in a flying saucer and make friends with Aliens.

CAUSE & EFFECT SENSORY LIGHTBOX

This is a must-have cause & effect app, and there are many different themes to choose from that are perfect for a Space theme.

INVADERS is perfect for a Space theme. Touch the screen to make Aliens appear with SC-Fi sound effects.

PLASMA – Plasma is another theme choice in the Cause & Effect Sensory Lightbox App. Touch the screen to make cosmic lights appear with celestial deep space sounds.

NEBULA – Touch & hold your finger down on the screen to create sound and make light patterns that look like a shooting star or comet moving through space.

Not only do these sensory pop tubes make a fabulous noise, bend, stretch, twist and squash the light up too.

There are so many different ways that you could use them for learning in your sensory room or dark space.

Big & Small

Size Ordering

Counting

Creating Shapes…the list goes on!

You can purchase Light Up Pop Tubes from Amazon for £8.99

Create a switch adapted Bat-Signal for your Sensory Room.

Cut out a large Bat made from a black card and stick it on the wall.

Plug a bright lamp into your switch box so that it shines over the Bat.

Pug a switch into your switch box

Turn out the lights

And off you go!

Search for pictures of Superhero symbols on the internet. Once you have found the ones you want, print them off, cut them out and stick them onto card.

Cut out the pieces that need to be exposed to light in order to show the features of the symbol (here, I have cut out the eyes). Then laminate.

You will need a Photoluminescent Board. You can buy large sheets of Photoluminescent Board on the Internet or you can buy smaller ones from Amazon.

You will also need a UV/blacklight torch which you can buy from Amazon.

Place the symbol on the board and shine the UV torch over the top then pull the symbol away to see the shadow it has made. Then make the shadow disappear by shining the torch over the shadow.

(Use your Photoluminescent Board in low lighting)

Sago Mini Superhero – Touch the screen to make Jack the Rabbit fly, help ducks cross the street, rescue the Ice Cream Van and make all things right across the city.

Available on the App & Play Store for £3.49

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‘I Am A Superhero’ is a short rhyming story by Sensory Soup. Perfect for sharing in the classroom or your Sensory Room.

‘I am a Superhero but nobody knows, as I keep my special cape hidden inside my clothes’

https://sensorysoup.co.uk/downloads/i-am-a-superhero

‘Superhero’ Dance Massage is an activity that combines music with sensory input to create a communication through touch activity themed around Superheros

A PowerPoint with Superhero images and music from famous Superhero films has been created to support this activity. The link for the PowerPoint can be found in the resource list for the activity

https://sensorysoup.co.uk/downloads/superhero-dance-massage