Scooping, pouring, squeezing, and playing with icy materials encourages fine motor development and tactile sensory exploration. Kids learn concepts like wet/dry, cold/hot, rough/smooth ...

The kind of tactile play that sensory bins provide has many benefits ... There are plenty of ideas for both wet and dry textures and many are things that you might already have around the house ...

Though it seems simple, feeling that something is wet is quite a feat because ... the role of A-nerve fibers -- sensory nerves that carry temperature and tactile information from the skin to ...

But wet sand that never dries out can facilitate ... which can support their ability to tolerate different tactile sensory experiences like getting their hands messy." Adding spoons and cups ...

Many have developed a similar strategy: a vigorous, full-body shaking motion that researchers have dubbed “wet dog shakes ... Finally, researchers traced the pathway that conducted these sensory ...