Children dive in hands first! Why? Because since birth they have been wired to receive and learn through sensory input; using their senses is familiar to children.  It's the most basic way to explore, process and come to understand and integrate new information.  This is one vital reason for the use of sensory tables.  Check out the pages below to learn more about what a sensory table is and how our favourite littles are currently using rice, leaves and woodland critters to develop neuropathways.

Can you guess what we might be doing?  We are creating beautiful rainbow cupcakes.  Mixing the colours is a vital part of the process!  To get all the colours of the rainbow we had to mix a few together!!  We learnt more about what happens when we mix: Red and yellow drops make a brilliant orange.  Yellow and blue gave us a mossy green, and blue and red gave us purple, the rainbow's final colour!  For more colour work we've been doing lately you could also take a look at the wall inside TreeFrog for our magical hands exhibit.

Enjoy the photos - we had a lot of fun!