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Free Printable Tools For Sensory & Neurodiverse

Thank you to Wendy @ Disabilityhelper.info, who came across the Sensory Soup website and forwarded me a few detailed resources she felt may be valuable to share via the site with persons and parents who may be struggling to deal with sensory issues or to meet sensory needs.

NHS SENSORY PROCESSING HUB

http://www.sensoryprocessinghub.humber.nhs.uk

Here can find a range of resources to view or download on the following topics.

Advice for Smearing

Auditory Processing and Memory Games

Auditory Sensitivity Advice

Bathing and Showering Advice

Bedtime & Sleep

Body awareness and Bottom wiping

Chewing

Dressing

General Mealtimes Principles

Hair Cutting

Interoception Strategies & Resources

Masking

Nail Cutting

Proprioceptive Activities

Sensory Opportunities at the Play Park

Sensory Processing Routine and Predictability

Sensory Therapy Putty Activities

Therapy Ball Measurements

Tooth Brushing

Vestibular Resources

WAYS TO DEAL WITH COMMON SENSORY ISSUES

Helpful Ways to Deal with Sensory Problems- Plus a Free Download

SENSORY ROOM IDEAS

HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT SENSORY ROOM FOR YOUR CHILD

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

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Apps & Resources For Space Theme

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.

SOUNDS OF THE NIGHT YOUTUBE VIDEO BY THE SENSORY ROOM

Watch stars twinkle and see shooting stars fall through the night sky with this great video by the Sensory Room on YouTube. This video would be perfect for creating an immersive nighttime environment in a sensory room when projected onto a wall. Play with or without the sounds.

SENSORY LIGHTS YOUTUBE VIDEO BY THE SENSORY ROOM

This video looks like a colourful meteor shower which would look amazing projected onto a wall, white tent or a sheet to create a colourful space theme in a sensory or dark room.

SENSORY SPACE YOUTUBE VIDEO BY BLUE FOX

Take a sensory trip through space with this visually stimulating YouTube video from Blue Fox.

SINGING HANDS – A SKY FULL OF STARS

Learn to sign A Sky Full of Stars by Coldplay with the fabulous Singing Hands. In this video, they suggest turning the lights down low and joining in with light-up stars, batons and torches.

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Cheap & Fun Sensory Pop Tubes

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

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Sensory Room Idea

5 Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day

These little light-up ducks look visually fabulous swimming on neon water in the Sensory Room.

Brilliant for sensory play & learning when sharing 5 Little Ducks with your sensory room explorers.

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Superhero Sensory Room Ideas

Here are a few Superhero ideas to use in your Sensory Room with your sensory learners & explorers.

GOTHAM CITY AMBIENCE – YouTube Video

This video makes a fabulous backdrop projected onto the wall of a Sensory Room—an hour-long video with amazing lights, city sounds and smoking rooftops. Watch out for the Bat-Signal shining into the starry city sky.

SWITCH ACTIVATED BAT SIGNAL

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!

SHADOW BOARD SUPERHERO SYMBOLS

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

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

‘I AM A SUPERHERO’ SENSORY STORY BY SENSORY SOUP

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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

‘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

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AUTUMN APP COLLECTION

Autumn is a souper sensory time of year leaves; conkers are falling from the trees, the weather is getting colder, the nights are darker, and we look forward to celebrating Halloween, Bonfire Night and Christmas.

Here are some fantastic cause-and-effect apps themed around this beautiful time of year to use with sensory learners in your settings & at home for learning and fun.

MEBOB SPOOKY

MEBOP SPOOKY is a super, spooky fun app with Halloween themed images and sounds

Tap, swipe & flick the screen to make skulls, eyeballs, sweets, and monsters appear. Touch the shape to make it pop. Shake the device to watch the noisy shapes move.

MAGIC CANVAS

MAGIC CANVAS is a lovely app with lots of different interactive scenes to choose from. This one is Tree House perfect for Autumn.

Touch the screen to make sounds & watch bright, colourful birds, flowers, leaves, little people appear.

MY BABY FIREWORKS

MY BABY FIREWORKS is a very noisy & fun app where round colourful fireworks fly onto the screen.

Tap the shapes to make them explode into a fantastic fireworks display.

WARNING – This is so much fun & very addictive.

FIREWORKS LAB

FIREWORKS LAB is an app where you can create your own amazing fireworks display! Pick a firework shape and then make it your own by feeding it a colourful treat.

Arrange your firework creations into a display then tap them to watch them come alive.

CAUSE & EFFECT SENSORY SOUND BOX

SENSORY CAUSE & EFFECT SOUND BOX has been around for a long time, but still one of my favourite cause & effect apps.

There are some lovely images & sound choices for Autumn such as Wind Maker, shown in the video.

Touch, tap and drag your finger around the screen to stir up the noisy wind to blow Autumn leaves all around the screen.

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Magical Autumn YouTube Videos

Here are two fabulous Autumn videos from YouTube that you can use to create a magical Autumnal environment in your sensory room. Run them via your projector onto a blank wall, a super cheap way to bring the visual wonder of Autumn inside… the perfect backdrops for setting the scene for Autumn sensory sessions.

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Glow In The Dark Sensory Art

Add different coloured florescent paint to water beads for a very effective sensory room art activity. This can get messy so make sure you have a plastic sheet down as the water beads bounce everywhere. I dropped the paint-covered water beads on to black paper in a large plastic storage box. The beads make a lovely sound when they hit the bottom & bounce all over the paper.

This would make a great art activity if you were replicating the work of Jackson Pollock.

If your classroom topic was themed around the weather, you could add fluorescent blue paint to your beads, when they hit the paper the beads would pitter-patter like the sound of rain, whilst creating lots of little blue raindrops.

This sensory activity could but adapted to suit any theme with a little imagination…I think the final picture in the video looks like a field of Spring flowers.