More play suggestions with the waterbeads - parents advise!
Waterbeads come as small hard dry balls. Once they are placed in water they absorb the water and expand into soft sensory motor toys. That in itself is a fascinating viewing pleasure, even if it takes a while.
https://youtu.be/yxtdItOmMVw
But what do you do with it? Play, play and play some more of course! Let children play freely with it, they often have the best ideas themselves. It may take a while, because they first have to get used to this "new" material.
Usage tips
- wash your hands before playing with waterbeads. This will ensure that you can enjoy playing with them for longer. If you don't, the beads can eventually become moldy.
- rinse them after playing by adding water, then rinse the water again with a colander and refill with clean water. This way the waterbeads can soak up water again and stay clean.
Play suggestions
If you want to guide and structure the game, I have collected a number of playing suggestions here.
Es There has a lot of play suggestions that she wants to share with you:
1. Make a dough ball
We also put the waterbeads in a balloon.
2. extra tactile stimuli
We mix the waterbeads through her homemade slime.
3. foot bath
And our daughter also played with it with her feet in a washing-up bowl.
4. watch marble run
She also let the water beads roll through a marble run just like marbles.
At childminder Kuku they do it like this
5.marble track
The marble run, different types of grippers, some measuring cups with water and water beads, waterbeads, orbeez were enough this morning.
We get this tip from Rineke:
6. hide and seek, marbles between water beads
Add marbles and let them search by touch. Especially transparent marbles you can't see between the waterbeads.
Anita also has suggestions:
7. feel with the hands
just lovely to rummage through with your hands. That's fun for young and old!
8.combine with playmobil:
Or in the playmobil pool. The dolls can then play in the waterbeads.
Ryanne shares this fun tip:
9.sensory bottle
Make a sensory bottle. Gives a very nice effect! Did it last week.
Tips from us
10.grab tool
We like to combine the waterbeads with tweezers
11. bounce
Waterbeads are also like little bouncy balls. Drop them and see what happens.
12.photographing
For older children it is fun to make photo experiments with the transparent water beads
13. sort
ideal for sorting by colour. How many different colours of waterbeads are there?
14.And Marieke from Oefentherapie Werkendam has written a very extensive blog about it: 
