Summer Sensory Story and Sensory Rich Activities PMLD SEND

Step into summer with this themed teaching pack aimed at sensory learners of all ages. Engage the senses, explore sensory preferences, and promote communication, anticipation, and social skills as you immerse your learners into a fully resourced summer-themed sensory story using everyday items for props.

This pack includes 101 differentiated sensory based, hands-on activities linking to areas of the curriculum aimed at promoting self-confidence, exploring creativity and trying new ideas.

Includes:

A Fully Resourced, Step-by-Step Summer Sensory Story

Plant & Insect Life Cycles: Watch nature unfold with engaging outdoor discoveries. Explore nature’s art room, enjoy a mini caterpillar life cycle sensory story.

Summer Science: Squish and mould sand dough and explore different textures in fun summer sensory science experiments.

Promote Listening Skills: Tune into themed summer sounds, the park, seaside, garden and more!

Culture and Tradition: Dive into summer foods and global festivals filled with colour, texture and flavour.

Life Skills & Independence: Explore seasonal clothing, summer safety and task boxes.

Role Play: Bring summer experiences to life though the senses!

Summer Math and D&T and Food: Make maths fun! Learn how to build nests, make ice-cream in a bag and lettuce wraps.

And more...

Table of Contents:
About the Artist
The Benefits of Multisensory Storytelling
How to Tell a Multisensory Story
Story Props Checklist
Summer Full Poem/Story
Summer Senses
Summer Nature
Nature's Art Room
Independent Skills - Task Boxes
Life Skills
Summer Safety
Bubbles & Sand Dough
Summer Sounds
Summer Role Play
D & T Summer Food
Understanding the World
D & T
The Summer Garden
Outdoor Learning
Pebble Painting
Summer Maths
Summer P.E
Culture - Traditional Clothing
Summer Festivals Around the World
Summer Science
Summer Plants & Life Cycles
Butterflies
Spotlight on...Hebden Green School
Sensory Art 'Sparrow's sensory Sun'
Sensory Art - 'Barn Owls Summer Exploration'
Sensory Art- 'Starlings We're all Going on a Summer Holiday'

This resource is aimed at supporting students and sensory learners of all ages following pre-formal/sensory, semi-formal or formal pathways incorporating activities that promote the five areas of the engagement model, creativity, independence, building communication skills, and supporting other areas of learning linking to curriculum subjects, themes, and topics.

This teaching pack is tailored to accommodate students’ individual learning needs through differentiated, themed, sensory extension activities linking to the EYFS Framework and areas of the KS1 National Curriculum making it the perfect resource for Special Education, Mainstream schools and settings, Speech & Language and EAL students.