08/11/2025
💦 If you’ve ever been to our sessions, you know the water play is always the busiest spot! Some children could stay there the entire time pouring, splashing, transferring, and giggling away! It’s such a simple setup, yet it keeps them engaged, curious, and happy.
Water play isn’t just fun, it’s full of learning through play:
✨ Sensory discovery: exploring wet, dry, warm, and cool.
✨ Fine motor development: pouring, scooping, squeezing, and transferring.
✨ Problem solving: how to make water flow, what floats, what sinks, how full can they make a cup before it spills.
✨ Emotional regulation: warm water and repetitive movements can be incredibly calming for children.
You can easily recreate it at home, just fill a container, add a few cups, spoons, funnels, and a towel underneath and let your child lead the play. To change it up, you can add bubbles, sponges, food colouring, boats, flowers, herbs, pompoms, or pool noodle slices. See what sinks, what floats, and how water moves through different containers.
The possibilities are endless and children never get bored of it!
Does your child love water play?
