Look each month for new ideas from Melissa Polensky COTA/L. She will be sharing great ideas for easy, fun and sensory rich activities that help to support occupational therapy and speech therapy goals.

Your kids are off from school, time to make…..Miss Melissa’s Summer Sensory Inventions:

FLOAM

Ingredients:
2 tsp of Borax
1/4 cup of Elmer’s Glue
1/3 cups of Polystyrene Beads (bean bag filler)
3/4 cups of Water
Instructions:
In a bowl combine 2 teaspoons of borax with 1/2 cup of very warm water.
Mix until the borax is dissolved.
In a separate bowl combine 1/4 cup of Elmer’s glue with 1/4 cup of water. Add tempera powder if color is desired or food coloring.
Once the ingredients of both bowls are dissolved pour everything into a ziplock bag (glue mixture, borax mixture, and polystyrene beads).
Seal the bag and shake until everything is combined.
Dump out and PLAY!

Benefits of making Floam

• Teaches kids the importance of following a recipe *If they don’t follow the directions correctly, it won’t turn out correctly
• Improves sensory processing specifically if your child has difficulty interacting with messy textures.
• Establishes fine motor skills especially stirring all those ingredients!
• Utilize it as a calming strategy
• Have fun and enjoy the experience of making FLOAM 🙂