This activity provides opportunities for sensory engagement (i.e. through vision and touch) in order to promote tolerance of different textures and (messy) sights.

This activity promotes stereognosis (identifying an object through touch instead of vision), visual perception, and tactile input. This activity bridges the connection in our brains between what we see and what we physically feel. We use these skills for tasks, such as efficiently locating items in our backpacks without looking.

This activity provides the child with tactile input as he digs in the selected media to find matching objects. The goal is to have the child use an appropriate grasp while pulling the object out of the container.

This activity works on tactile processing and stereognosis allowing the child to be exposed to a variety of textures.