Sensory Feely Bag
Make Your Own Sensory Feely Bags
Colored Oil and Water Sensory Feely Bag
These are fairly easy to make, and easy to make a wide variety of sensory feely bags. For children who are not happy or comfortable touching squishy, gooey, or messy items, using sensory feely bags are a great CLEAN way for your child to experience sensory play without the full sensory impact.
With sensory feely bags you can place different objects in each bag – ideas include plastic or rubbery animals, building snap blocks, cotton balls, cut up sponges, glitter, buttons, unpopped popcorn, dried lentils or beans, dry noodles of various shapes and sizes, small craft pom-poms, and so on
Game Piece Discs, Buttons, Gel, Sensory Feely Bag
What you will need:
Plastic sealable lunch size, quart size, gallon size bags (buy good quality ones!)
A4 Laminator pouches if you choose to go that route (you will need an iron for this process) – you will need to find these in a craft store or order online
Super Glue to seal the bags (for non-laminated ones)
Sealing masking tape, duck tape, or fabric masking tape
Finger Paint Sensory Feely Bag
Liquid to put in the bags can include:
o Oils (olive or safflower)
o Hair Gel
o Food colors
o Gelatin mix with water
o Honey
o Food thickeners
o Syrup
o Oil and colored water mixture
You can make a bag for each of the following items, or make a “collage feely bag” and combine several items in one bag.
Buttons and Beads Hair Gel Sensory Feely Bag
Items to put in the bags can include:
o Buttons
o Sequins
o Glitter
o Small plastic or rubbery animals
o Foam alphabet letters and numbers
o Googly Eyes
o Cotton balls
o Cut up sponges
o Wooden game pieces
o Small dominos
o Beads and bobbles
o Small construction and building blocks
o Plastic or rubbery fish
o Wooden or plastic hearts
o Plastic leaves or flower tops
o Water beads
o Shells (smooth edges)
o Larger seeds (watermelon, pumpkin, unpopped corn)
o Magnetic bingo chips with bingo “wand”
o Squirt in a dollop of finger paint
o Squirt in several different colors of finger paint to mix up
o Theme bags for the different holidays (Easter, 4TH of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, and so on)
Halloween Themed Sensory Feely Bag
General Directions
You can make TRAVEL bags by using smaller snack and sandwich size
Use larger quart and gallon size for more active play!
Fill each bag with the items you are using (don’t overfill - the items need room to move around)
Pour in the liquid for that bag (oil, gel, honey, thickener, etc)
Do not overfill as there needs to be room for squishing and poking, and movement of the objects in the bag
Push out any “extra” air to flatten as you close the bag and seal
Seal (glue and tape) the bags well and let the glue dry well
You can “double” up the bag by putting the filled bag into another bag for extra protection and durability
You can put the masking tape, printed fabric tape, or duct tape around the sealed side or around all 4 sides for extra protection, besides giving it a cool look
If making an oil and water sensory feely bag, color the water and add ¼ cup to ½ cup of oil depending on the size of the bag – sort of shake and mix it up – the water and oil will not mix but will make some cool formations to move around by little hands
Magnetic Bingo Wand Sensory Feely Bag
Make a variety of bags in different sizes!
Makes for a great party activity or to put in a party gift bag!
Check out TheraPlay4Kids.com for lots of other ideas and information!
Since the bags contain small items, always supervise their use. A child can poke a hole or tear the bag and have access to the small items inside.
Beads and Colored Gel Sensory Feely Bag
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Popcorn and Oil / Water Sensory Feely Bag
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