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Tactile

This section includes toys, games and activities to provide tactile stimulation.

Walls and panels provide stimulation and different sensory experiences including those which provide tactile sensation.

Mats and flooring are available in a range of textures and colours. They can assist children to develop exploration and tactile recognition and perception (discriminating between different textures). Some are made up of panels that can be linked together on the floor to make various shapes, or different sized mats.

Games and activities that have various textures, shapes and surfaces to encourage children to explore and compare, such as puzzles, dice, counters, mazes and games such as matching pairs of tactile balls.

Blocks and tiles are available in a range of shapes, colours and textures which children can explore and compare. They can be used for developing recognition skills, tactile perception (discriminating between different textures), increasing hand-eye coordination and encouraging children's communication and interaction.

Boxes that have various textured surfaces inside a box for gross or fine tactile discrimination. They are usually open on one side which children can access with their hands or their feet. Children can feel and compare the textures inside the box. This can be a fun way of training basic tactile skills.

Toys for tactile stimulation include beanbags, water snakes, animals, wooden blocks and vibrating tubes. Each can present a different tactile experience as they build, sort, stretch, squash, squeeze, compare and explore shapes and textures.

Shape puzzles/games and inset boards that may help a child to recognise and match shapes such as geometric shapes (circles, squares etc), animal shapes and everyday items (e.g. a car, tree or house). 

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Mini Popper
Multi sensory toy. Comprises: plastic dome and base; lights, bouncing balls and vibratory response when dome is pressed; battery operation; facility f...
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Mini Dome
Multisensory toy. Comprises: transparent dome containing confetti mounted on an angled plastic base with touch sensitive platform surrounding the dome...
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Tactile Search & Match Puzzle
Puzzle designed to provide tactile stimulation and colour/texture recognition. Comprises: wooden board with nine inset circles; nine round puzzle piec...
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Tactile Panel
Outdoor sensory activity. Comprises: wooden panel with 15 different tactile squares; includes rough artificial grass, a smooth acrylic mirror, felts a...
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Explorers Tactile Panel
Tactile panel. Comprises: waterproof panel; posts for securing panel into the ground; eight different sensory panels with glass, bobbly rubber mattin...
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Fan And Lights Reward
Reward toy. Comprises: wooden box; four coloured lights; fan; switch operated. Switch not supplied.
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Transparent Tactile Shells
Set of shapes designed to provide tactile and visual stimulation. Comprises: 108 translucent shell shapes in different shapes, sizes and colours; text...
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Texture Blocks
Tactile boxes. Comprises: nine wooden blocks; range of textured surfaces; rounded edges; two identical wooden strips hold nine blocks each; storage bo...
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Tactile Box
Tactile box. Comprises: wooden construction; hand holes with material positioned to conceal objects positioned behind the panel for identification by ...
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Matching Textures Bag
Tactile game. Comprises: fabric drawstring bag; ten textured squares including fur; cord; plastic; Velcro; silk and wool materials.
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Feelie Tactile Boxes
Tactile boxes. Comprises: ten wooden boxes; open on one side; range of textures including fur, sandpaper, cork, rubber; detachable textured disc. Boxe...
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Big Sensory Book
Large multicoloured fabric book. Comprises: nine pages, each having a different activity; dressing tasks; alphabet; sounds; textures; numbers. Can be ...
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Wooden Lacing Shapes
Shapes to encourage threading and lacing activity. Comprises: four wooden blocks with holes for lacing; wooden threader with threading lace; blocks ar...
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Wooden Lacing Fruits
Set of shapes for threading and lacing development. Comprises: 21 brightly coloured fruit shapes with holes through the centre; three wooden threaders...
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Undo Me Mini Cube
Cube designed to develop fastening skills. Comprises: each side of the cube features a task requiring a different skill including laces, buttons, zips...
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Twist And Turn Puzzle
Shape recognition puzzle. Comprises: wooden base with three differently-shaped vertical wooden posts; nine wooden discs in a range of shapes and colou...
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Threading Pebbles
Threading pebbles. Comprises: sixteen stone and resin threading pebbles; four different shapes; pair of laces.
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Shapes Motor Skills Activity Board
Shapes motor skills activity board. Comprises: wooden board; wooden shapes with pegs for positioning.
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Shape Labyrinth Puzzle
Labyrinth track finder board. Comprises: wooden baseboard; coloured wooden geometric shapes which are moved along the tracks to an end point with a co...
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Sensory Tactile Mats
Tactile soft play mats. Comprises: six mats; textured shapes and pictures; connect together.
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Sensory Snap Beads
Sensory beads designed to develop hand eye co-ordination. Comprises: 14 bead shapes made of plastic that join together by pushing a small peg in one b...
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Primary Lacing Beads
Set of differently shaped beads to assist with threading skills. Comprises: wooden beads in five different shapes and six different colours; beads hav...
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Nuts And Bolts Activity
Colour-coded nuts and bolts. Comprises: set consists of thirty two pieces; variety of four different shapes; variety of four colours; pieces come in a...
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Nuts And Bolts
Set of nuts and bolts. Comprises: 64 large plastic nuts and bolts; storage box.
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