Firstly a quick note on sensory play. It has great benefits for young children in allowing them to experience new and different sensations and learn about the world around them. Senses are used to enhance their experience and give unique learning opportunities. Plus, it really is good for the soul to get your hands dirty and enjoy the mess!
We were ecstatic to finally find corn flour here in Brazil. Yeah I really should have been searching harder, it was right under my nose every time I went to the supermarket! So this weeks activities are primarily based on corn flour play :)
It is one of my favourite things to use for sensory play so I guess that's why my boys enjoyed it so much too!
We began with a simple corn flour and water mix. we added a packet of cornflour to a small amount of water mixing continuously until we had a nice textured goop that we could roll into a ball and let drip from our fingers. This activity can be even more fun if you make a couple of batches in different colours and watch them run together!
Our next corn flour fun involved making slimes! Soaked linseed makes a great consistency for adding to cornflour to make textured goopy slime!
The soaked linseed made great sensory beads too. We just added different colours and let the boys free on them (in the safety of the bath to contain the mess)! 
We then went on to make edible paint! We have two types - one is made from yogurt and food colouring which has a great texture (and smell depending on the yogurt you use). My boys actually eat most of it too so not at all waste full. They particularly enjoy licking it off the paper! The second type of safe paint is water with food colouring. Very simple and great for painting walls and paths in the garden! 
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