Spring Sensory Story and Sensory Rich Activities PMLD SEND

Immerse sensory learners of all ages in a fully resourced, spring-themed sensory story using everyday items for props that bring the season vividly to life.

Celebrate the season of new beginnings as learners engage the senses, explore personal preferences, and develop communication, anticipation, and social interaction skills.

What’s Included:

• Step-by-Step Spring Sensory Story – A fully resourced narrative that guides learners through the essence of spring using everyday items.

• Hands-On Activities – Differentiated, curriculum-linked tasks that foster independence, creativity, and new experiences.

• Animal Life & Nature Exploration – Discover lambs, build nests, and plant bee seed balls—bringing nature into the classroom.

• Spring Science – Watch flowers change colour, craft mini greenhouses, and explore weather through sensory clothing stations.

• Life Skills & Eco Living – Spring-clean your classroom and make your own earth-friendly cleaning products—sensory exploration meets sustainability.

• Ancient Cultures & Beliefs – Travel through time to explore spring traditions from Egypt to Anglo-Saxon England, Greece to the Maya.

• Festivals Around the World – Dive into Holi, Nowruz, Las Fallas and more—celebrating spring’s spirit through global colour and texture.

• Sensory Art & Role Play – Weave, sculpt and explore fostering fine motor development and creative expression through spring-themed, multisensory crafts and role play.

Invite learners explore sensory ponds, meet herb sock animals, mix chocolate nests, and reflect on seasonal changes with creativity and joy.

This pack doesn't just teach—it transforms the classroom into a sensory hub of interaction and imagination.

This resource is aimed at supporting students and sensory learners of all ages following pre-formal/sensory, semi-formal or formal pathways. It incorporates activities that promote the five areas of the engagement model—encouraging creativity, independence, communication development and broader learning across curriculum subjects, themes, and topics.

The sensory stimuli (story props) are a tool for the story explorer to explore and express their likes, dislikes, and sensory preferences and to have the opportunity to make choices and rejections. These preferences can be noted and used in care plans and to enhance areas of daily life.

It is also tailored to accommodate individual learning needs through differentiated, themed sensory extension activities, linking to the EYFS Framework and areas of the KS1 National Curriculum. This makes it the perfect resource for special education, mainstream schools and settings, speech and language development, and EAL students.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Benefits of Multisensory Storytelling
How to tell a Multisensory Story
Story Props Checklist
'Spring' Full Story
'Spring' Fully Resourced, Step-by-Step Multisensory Story
Spring Pond Sensory Bin
Let's Explore...Lambs
Bee Seed Balls
Nest Building
Make a Bird Nesting Material Holder
Chocolate Bird Nests
Flower Colour Changing Experiment
Spring Weather Box & Sensory Clothes Exploration
Spring Nature Walk
Bottle Animals
Herb Sock Animal
Cress Shapes
Mini Greenhouse
Nature's Art Room
Spring Weaving
Spring Clean Your Classroom
Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products
Spring Ancient Beliefs - Egypt & The Roman Empire
Spring Ancient Beliefs - Shemu
Spring Ancient Beliefs - Anglo Saxons
Spring Ancient Beliefs - Ancient Greece & Maya
Mayan Equinox Sensory Bin
Spring Festivals Around the World - Holi
Spring Festivals Around the World - Marzanna (Poland)
Spring Festivals Around the World - Cimburijada (Bosnia)
Spring Festivals Around the World - Las Fallas (Valencia Spain)
Spring Festivals Around the World - Cherry Blossom Festival (Japan)
Spring Festivals Around the World - Nowruz (Iran)
Spring Sensory Ideas & Inspiration