Touch and Feel Box

Encourage sensory exploration, language development, and critical thinking with the Touch and Feel Box – a fun and engaging resource designed to strengthen children’s descriptive vocabulary and tactile recognition skills. Perfect for classrooms, early learning centres, therapy settings, and home learning environments, this hands-on activity helps children identify and describe objects using touch alone.

Designed to support the development of stereognosis, the ability to recognise texture, size, shape, spatial properties, and temperature without visual or auditory cues, the Touch and Feel Box creates exciting opportunities for sensory play and language-rich learning experiences.

Children place their hands inside the box, feel an object, and describe what they can sense without looking. Using descriptive words such as soft, rough, smooth, large, small, hard, or bumpy encourages communication, observation, and confidence while building important cognitive and sensory processing skills.

Why Educators Love It:

• Encourages sensory exploration and tactile discrimination
• Supports vocabulary building and oral language development
• Helps strengthen descriptive and observational skills
• Ideal for sensory play, literacy activities, and therapy sessions
• Promotes curiosity, critical thinking, and problem-solving

How to Use It:

• Place familiar classroom objects inside for guessing games
• Encourage children to describe textures, shapes, and sizes
• Use during group discussions or language learning activities
• Pair with themed objects for literacy, science, or sensory units
• Great for individual, paired, or small group learning

Details:

• Touch and Feel sensory guessing box
• Supports stereognosis and sensory development
• Encourages use of descriptive language and adjectives
• Ideal for classrooms, therapy settings, and home learning
• Suitable for early learners and primary-aged children