Cooked noodles are a great first tool to use for babies to explore with, as well as pre schoolers. Cooked noodles are very eatible, they are slippery, squishy, and are also able to be used to form symbols and shapes in a fun way. Add collr to them and it adds another layer to the sensory experience.
Dry noodles can be used for painting with, lacing through string, counting, seperating, and other art projects. They are also great for dumping and measuring in sensory bins. Children enjoy the fun times spent with this type of play.
When children play with noodles they are working their brain muscles, as well as their fine a gross motor skills. They are exploring and experimenting and discovering through their own imaginations what they can do with the noodles. They can learn in a different way anout shapes while using cooked spaghetti noodles, or counting as they seperate different shaped noodles into piles, which is an early mathematics lesson. They are figuring what can fit inside a rigatoni noodle or what objects hold the most elbow macaroni noodles. These types of activities are science experiments for them. Socially kids enjoy sensory play nearby others because it is fun to watch what another kid/afult has thought to try while they are busy trying out their ideas.
What ways can you think up for how important the work of playing with noodles is for your child?
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