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@Chloe yes I do lots of sensory bins and thing with her. She’s been doing this for well over a year and there’s some other things that has drawn attention from the health visitor which has lead to a referral for sensory processing disorder. But also she hasn’t started nursery yet and I feel she may learn alot of other play ideas from there when she starts in January. As much as I take her to play groups and she plays normally with toys and other children there but I feel like at home she just is stuck in a bit of a routine of constantly filling and emptying. Like she will sit for hours with the same box and little parts to something random and she’ll just sit there putting them in and taking them out. Now and again she will do other things but she’s drawn to this particularly when she’s tired or overstimulated. We have fidget poppers for her but it doesn’t seem to be enough .
Picnic basket with a bunch of pretend foods and plates
A postbox with the letters that go in the slot it’s a bit more grown up than the shape sorters 🥰
Or there’s also those shape sorter kinda things with the tops that change to a coin slot /staw slot / ball /carrots etc sorry not best description 😂
I bought this for my son last year, he loves it and it also helped with learning to count and colours 😁 https://amzn.eu/d/8fj5lrS
Could be in her containment schema era 😊 Loose part play is also really excellent for this! Grapat for example make lovely collections for open ended play. So you may not have to bring back old toys (though perfectly fine to do that) there could be things out there she hasn’t yet used for this kind of play. Would she like sensory bases like pom-poms or dyed chicken peas etc (depends if she’d put them in her mouth as well) with tools like tweezers, scoops etc to transfer between containers? Montessori collections of small differently sized lidded pots etc.