Sensory Walk

I've been meaning to make Tiny a sensory walk for days now but with the weather being so beautiful I decided to take her to see some cherry blossom trees then to an ancient bluebell wood. It became her sensory walk as it was a sensory playground; it was all there waiting to be explored and far better than anything I could have set up for her.
She played in the cherry blossom for an hour as it fell around her like gentle pink snow. It felt cool and soft beneath her feet and was like a dream to be in.



Walking in the bluebell woods was a fantastic place for her to explore through her feet. I helped her walk along felled trees and across the woodland floor. It became a game of walking and being carried as she communicated very clearly when she wanted down and when she wanted to be carried again. When we passed trees with beautiful bark I held her close so she could feel the bark with her feet. She enjoyed pressing the soles of her feet against it. 

All her senses were being stimulated. Her sense of sight by the dappled light falling though the trees and the magical purpley-blue of the flowers; her sense of smell with the scent of bluebell and wild garlic permeating the air; the breeze, bark and woodland floor stimulating her sense of touch; I was filling her ears with song about the magic of the woods accompanied by birdsong and the call of lambs to their mums and I fed her as I walked.