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Play With Purpose: Sensory-Friendly Fun for Kids
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items This list is a curated collection of sensory-friendly toys and tools that invite kids to move, explore, and self-regulate through play. Whether you’re looking for calming textures, movement-based activities, or creative ways to help your child focus ...
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Furniture
All About Texture
Bath Toys
Soft Play
Furniture
This child-sized swivel chair offers the perfect way for kids to get gentle vestibular input while staying seated. The spinning motion helps improve balance, coordination, and focus—especially for little ones who learn best when they can move. Its co...
Sensory Swivel Chair
A cozy, fabric cocoon that provides both calming pressure and soothing motion. Sensory swings like this one can help children regulate big emotions, unwind after a busy day, or simply enjoy the gentle rocking sensation. They’re wonderful for creating...
Marlowe & Co Indoor Outdoor Cotton Sensory Swing
Ideal for energetic kids who love to move! This balance board encourages coordination, focus, and strength through playful motion. It’s an engaging way to support gross motor development and confidence, whether indoors on a play mat or outside on sof...
Gibbon Slackboard - Slackline for Kids & Beginners
The wiggle seat is a simple but effective solution for kids who have trouble sitting still. It provides subtle movement that helps channel extra energy and improve concentration during meals, reading, or homework time. It’s small, portable, and easy ...
BouncyBand Wiggle Seat
Perfect for sound-sensitive kids or busy family outings, these ear muffs reduce noise without completely blocking it out. They help children feel more comfortable in loud environments—like sporting events, school assemblies, or crowded stores—by givi...
Dr.meter Noise Cancelling Ear Muffs
This swing combines the fun of surfing and swinging for an exciting way to build balance and coordination. Kids can stand or sit as they glide through the air, developing core strength, stability, and confidence with every motion. The smooth, curved ...
Swurfer Kick Stand Up Surfing Tree Swing
This vibrant balance beam and stepping-stone play set is a fantastic option for kids who thrive on movement and tactile experiences. The set features textured beams and sensory stepping pods that encourage children to build their own obstacle course—...
B. toys Balance Beam for Kids - Musical Set
This shell-shaped wonder is such a gem in our home — it’s one of those toys that quietly blooms into whatever the moment asks for. One minute it’s a little seat for sprawling in with a book, the next it’s a ship on imaginary seas, or a cradle for dol...
Fat Brain Toys bilibo by MOLUK - Mint
All About Texture
This little raindrop-shaped squishy toy is such a smart addition to our sensory toolkit—it’s compact, engaging, and perfect for hands-on moments of focus or calm.
Schylling NeeDoh Dream Drop Sensory Pack
These soft, food-grade silicone chew necklaces are a beautifully simple tool for children who seek oral-motor input or tactile comfort in a discreet, wearable way. They provide a safe alternative for kids who might chew on hands, shirts, or other obj...
Chew Necklaces for Sensory Kids | Calm Colors 5PCS
This board is a beautifully simple tool that quietly supports kids who crave tactile feedback, movement of the fingers, or a calm focus moment. The double-sided silicone board paired with rods invites pushing, pulling, looping, peeling—so many ways t...
Sensory Activity Board: Double-Sided Fidget Toy
This chewable toy is a thoughtful addition to the sensory-toolkit for kids who need safe, oral-motor input. It offers a discreet, portable outlet for chewing or nibbling when hands, shirts or other objects become the default.
Sensory Chew Toys (2 Pack)
This kit is a beautifully curated “all-in-one” way to bring sensory play into our day with ease. It includes natural sensory dough along with fun tools and materials that invite my son (and me!) to explore textures, imaginative play, and calm-down mo...
Starter Sensory Kit
This is such a smart one to add to our sensory-toolkit — a building set that’s delightfully soft, squishy, and invites all kinds of tactile, movement and imaginative play. Kids can stack, stretch, squish, and build with these blocks, which means they...
Jelly Blox Stash 'N Stack 2-in-1 Case w/30 Blocks
Bath Toys
This sweet little bundle of light-and-water magic is one of my favourites for sensory play that doesn’t feel like “adult invented therapy” but just fun with purpose. The moment the cubes hit water, they light up—and that glow invites curiosity, touch...
Glo Pals Sesame Street Cookie Monster Cubes
These light-up cubes are magic in a simple form—and perfect for kids who love sensory play that dazzles and calms all at once. Just drop them into water and watch them glow, turning ordinary play into something extraordinary.
Glo Pals Fine Motor Tools Sensory Play Pack
Mobi Skwooshlz Water Squeeze Bulbs
Nuby Wacky Waterworks Pipes Bath Toy
Soft Play
This flowing silk wand adds a beautiful, open-ended movement element that invites children to explore motion, balance, creativity and sensory input all in one. The long silk ribbon trails behind as kids spin, jump, dance or “paint” the air with colou...
Sarah's Silks Rainbow Streamer 8' Ribbon Wand
This is one of those magical toys that brings movement, texture, and imagination together in a beautifully simple package. The soft “bonkless” ball with its flowing rainbow silk tail invites kids to spin, toss, catch, dance—and through all that motio...
Sarah's Silks Skytail Rainbow Comet 35"