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
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.
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’
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
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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Finally, why not try adding neon bouncy balls to plain water for a calming, visual sensory play experience. These bouncy balls make a lovely sound when dropped into the water.
Soup up your sensory room water play by adding water to a good blob of florescent paint, chuck in loads of neon bouncy balls and off you go—a souper sensory play experience for special learners of all ages.
Use Neon bouncy balls in your sensory room with a backlight, for lots of visual, tactile, bouncy fun & play.
GLOW IN THE DARK WATER MADE SIMPLE – If you have a sensory room or similar with a good blacklight, you can create a water play experience with a difference by adding fluorescent paint to your water. A visually fabulous and engaging sensory activity for super special sensory learners of all ages.
