12 FUN WAYS TO PLAY WITH KINETIC SAND YOUR KIDS WILL LOVE

Kinetic sand is one of the best sensory-rich materials to encourage play and we've collect 12 of the best ways to play with kinetic sand your children will find hard to resist. 

As soon as we opened the box, kinetic sand quickly became one of our favourite sensory rich materials for play.

It made our list of favourite non-food items for sensory play back in 2014. 


It truly is amazing stuff and so versatile! Recently we found a new way to play with our kinetic sand.

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Of course everyone knows how perfect kinetic sand is for molding 3D shapes with. We used some of these geometric 3D shapes in our kinetic sand which was lots of fun.


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The real fun started though after they had made several different 3D shapes and then started drawing on them. 

Their imaginations ran wild! 

I love that my children continue to look at things with open minds and then their creativity shines.


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We love using our kinetic sand in class too.

It's provided a fun way to practice our spelling. We used some of our CVC Printable Bundle to create this simple invitation to spell. 

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Use it to learn the upper and lower case letters. Simply stamp some lower case letters in a tray of kinetic sand then try to match the upper case letters to them. You can find 50 more ways to use crafts sticks for learning here.

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Looking for more ways to play with your kinetic sand?

Kinetic Sand Stamping from Picklebums

Alphabet Search from you clever monkey


Making Letters from The Gift of Curiosity


Stamping Words from The Moffat Girls



Compound Word Stamping from Life Over at C's
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Kinetic Sand Numbers from In My World

Geoboard Fun from And Next Comes L


Make a Marble Maze from A Thoughtful Life


Kinetic Sand Race Track from In The Playroom

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Want more kinetic sand ideas?
I highly recommend this fantastic ebook from And Next Comes L's

It's full of so much kinetic sand inspiration!



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