#balancing buckets

Check out these ideas for adding cold and water play to help your child balance his or her bucket!

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Many children seek to play in water and explore colder objects and with good reason. Think of all of the ways we use water to calm and balance our own sensory buckets or talk about needing to cool down.…

Ideas for building a calming space for your child and modeling how to use it!

Sometimes we all just need a break. We seek out a space that is quiet and inviting. We often emerge feeling better, centered, balanced. This space allowed us to balance out our bucket in one way or another. When children are overwhelmed by sensory information, they may need a similar break from activity and sensory input to help balance their sensory bucket.

I encourage most parents to have a…