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Spaghetti Sensory Play for Babies and Young Toddlers

I have seen Spaghetti play all over the internet and pinterest – but apart from when T has dinner I haven’t played with it with her. So I took the challenge and cooked up the spaghetti, because I wanted it to be a visual as well as touch so I used some food colouring.

Baby Play - Sesnroy SpaghettiCooked Spaghetti has a unique feel to it – when J saw what T was playing with he announced it was slimy worms so I cooked up some Spaghetti and the split the quantity in half and dyed half blue and half green. Full instructions on how to make dyed spaghetti for sensory play can be found by clicking on the link.

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Putting them into a Tupperware container I put this on a tray and on the floor in front of T.

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T exploring the spaghetti

The first thing that T did was get all of the spaghetti out of the box and cover her legs in it (yes she’s a strange baby) she then kept lifting it up and letting it run through her hands.

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T exploring physics!

She played for ages with the spaghetti (it wasn’t allowed to go back in the box though this caused a mini meltdown!) and while she was there she discovered some physics, centrifugal force as she spun it around in front of her face – although she didn’t know that she was doing it of course it was just fun to get it to spin.

Being T though the sensory exploration wasn’t limited to her hands and eyes – she had to taste it. This is the great thing of the spaghetti as a sensory play it’s edible.

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Cerys Parker

Cerys is a marine biologist, environmental educator, teacher, mum, and home educator from the UK. She loves getting creative, whether it is with simple and easy crafts and ideas, activities to make learning fun, or delicious recipes that you and your kids can cook together you'll find them all shared here on Rainy Day Mum.

7 Comments

  1. We haven’t tried spaghetti play at home, yet. Chook had lots of fun trying it out at the Family Fun Day in March. It wasn’t as slimy as I thought it would be! I am going to share this on my FB page 🙂

  2. This looks like so much fun! I’ve been wanting to incorporate more sensory play into my kiddies’ play. Now I have something new to try!

  3. We love spaghetti play, haven’t done it for a while so much have another go. Last time we did it I striped Bean down to her nappy and sat her in a cheap £1 paddling pool.

  4. How fun! Looks like T loved it! You know we love our pasta play. In fact, our post scheduled for later today is a pasta post . We put it in the bath 🙂

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