Hands-on play that packs a punch.
Sensory Play Labs is helping to change how sensory and “messy” play is offered in the classroom!
Consistent exposure, wider access, higher-impact and no added burden on teachers.
Sensory and Messy Play Fun & Enrichment
For Early Learners
Schools and education centers infant-1st grade.
Skill building, brain boosting and irresistibly fun!
Sensory Explorers Programs bring high-impact, developmentally meaningful sensory and messy play classes, curriculums and sessions directly into classrooms.
Powerful play. We focus on supporting the whole child with play that promotes learning and supports a child’s overall social and emotional well-being.
About Our Programs:
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A chance to dive into the excitement and fun of sensory and messy sensory play! Classes are play based and completely hands-on experiences featuring attention grabbing and attention keeping activities.
Each class features colorful, sense-stimulating materials to scoop, squish, mix, mash, dig, dump, pour, investigate, experiment and explore. Materials created by Sensory Play Labs!
Not just our fun materials, but play that’s packed with things kids love and things they’ve never seen before. Play with creative play parts, sensory tools and exciting themes that encourage imagination, creativity and exploration. Students will explore outer space galaxies, neon dinosaur islands a messy farm, squishy underwater oceans and more!
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Our program is more than just fun, it’s a thoughtfully designed program that provides a meaningful boost to growth and development in early learners.
Play is designed with input from educators and each activity, material and session feature core elements from research-backed insight into what makes sensory play most effective, most engaging (and the most fun!)
Promotes curiosity and creativity.
Practices independent problem-solving.
Encourages skill building.
Supports emotional regulation.
Introduces STEM basics.
Provides a meaningful boost to brain development.
Additional focus on:
Sensory identification, “sense library”
Gross and fine motor, pre-writing skills.
Confidence, teamwork, collaboration, cognitive flexibility.
Imaginary play
Cause- effect, science and math, symbolic thinking, sorting, organizing, counting, multi-step processes.
Life skills, pouring, scooping, persistence, planning, decision making, self-directed play,
Language acquisition, vocabulary, memory, attention span,
Say YES to the MESS! Play can be tailored to emphasize specific needs.
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With consistent access to this unique type of play offered in our Sensory Explorers Programs, children and classrooms benefit in big ways!
Each session promotes:
• Improved emotional regulation and calmer classroom engagement.
• Stronger attention spans and increased task persistence.
• Improved problem solving and early reasoning skills.
• More confident, independent exploration.
Skills Children Build & Practice
• Gross and fine motor development, balance, dexterity and hand strength.
• Real-life skills including scooping, pouring, sorting, transferring, filling, and dumping.
• Early math and STEM foundations such as volume, cause/effect, counting, organizing, sorting, multi-step processes.
• Expanded vocabulary and stronger language development through guided interaction.
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Whether it’s a one time fun visit or a yearly program, there are many ways to work with us.
Big or small. We love working with you!
By classroom- teacher, parent, PTA.
By school- per grade, per program by administration, enrichment blocks, program directors.
Early Ed programs, recreation departments, individual franchises and everything in between.
Currently we only book locally in Massachusetts.
Reach out for more information or check out our booking request form at the bottom of this page.
Sensory Play Labs: Sensory Explorers Program
What to expect from Sensory Play Labs.
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Not just any sensory play activities, this is our specialty and we ensure play is irresistibly fun, memorable and packed with colorful, sense-stimulating sensory materials we create.
Play is created to inspire curiosity and spark creativity with activities full of animals, trucks, volcanoes, castles, rocket ships and other fun things that sparkle, squish, splash and move.
Each activity features sensory and stem tools encouraging skills building and deeper exploration.
Child-led: Play is naturally engaging with setups and play invitations that are attention grabbing and attention keeping. There are so many ways to explore to extend engagement and attention spans.
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Each activity uses multiple sensory materials with a focus on engaging multiple senses simultaneously. This enhances the integration of sensory information and supports cognitive development.
New and unique sensory experiences build connections in the brain. A more connected brain processes information more efficiently. Our program offers students consistent access to these experiences, in a fun, safe way, supporting a meaningful boost to brain development!
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An experienced play teacher is there to facilitate the fun and expand the exploration throughout play. Package options include learning guides for teachers, professional development options and collaborative sensory curriculum planning.
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We make play that’s tailored by age, grade and developmental levels. This ensures each activity allows students to use skills they’ve mastered while being challenged to try out ones that are new to them.
Activities are naturally engaging and child-led with multiple access points ensuring every single child can explore in their own way, at their own pace.
Each activity, material and session feature core elements from research-backed insight into what makes sensory play most effective, most engaging (and the most fun!) We’ve had input from educators and from kids themselves.
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Bright, colorful, sense stimulating materials to scoop, squish, splat, mix, dig, dump and pour and explore. Curiosity inspiring things they’ve never seen before!
Program Style
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Style: Big Discovery Stations Visits
Play time: 60 Minutes
Students engage in open explore play of 3-5 big discovery stations. Each station features it’s own messy sensory materials, creative play parts, sensory tools, containers and exciting add-ins. Each station invites students to investigate, experiment, explore, scoop, squish, mix, dig, dump, and discover through hands-on, open-ended play.
Included:
Sensory curriculum to align with age and developmental goals.
All sensory and messy materials.
Play teacher.
Smocks, cleanup materials.
Indoor/Outdoor options
Floor coverings.
Allergy friendly.
Customizable activities and materials.
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Individual or Paired Sensory Activity Visit
Recommended for ages 3+
Play Time: 30-45 Minutes
Each student or pair receives their own small sensory bin to explore. Students engage in a teacher guided activity with 1-3 materials that we explore in multiple ways. Messy sensory materials, tools and creative play parts are added throughout to expand and change play. All students participate at the same time.
Indoor/Outdoor options, works well for low-mess tabletop play.
Included:
Sensory curriculum to meet ages and development levels of class.
Dedicated play teacher.
Smocks, table coverings and cleanup supplies.
All messy materials.
Sensory and STEM tools and creative play parts.
Onsite setup, cleanup and offsite cleanup of supplies.
Booking Options
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Bring the Play Lab to school for a celebration, holiday or just for a fun treat!
Students will dive into exciting sensory stations featuring colorful, messy, sense-stimulating materials to explore in all of the messy ways they love! Multiple activities per visit each with it’s own fun theme, messy materials, sensory tools and creative play parts!
Play Style: Discovery Stations (60 Minutes)
Indoor/Outdoor options.
Includes:
Multiple messy materials.
Sensory teacher to run the fun.
Smocks, mini lab coats and cleanup supplies provided.
Music and bubbles available.
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Choose recurring visits for 4, 6, 8 or 12 week sessions.
Choose Activity Style:
Discovery Stations (60 minutes)
or
Individual Activities (30-45 minutes)
Offered as weekly, bi-weekly and monthly visits.
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A full sensory curriculum for students lasting September -June.
Four Sessions: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Offered as weekly, bi-weekly and monthly visits.
Each Session:
8-10 Classes
4 sensory curriculums
New activities and materials
More opportunities to use newly acquired abilities
New chances to explore previous materials in new ways. (Not heavily repetitive.)
Reinforces all of the skill building and brain boosting developmental benefits.
Play Style: Big Discovery Stations + Individual Activities (every other week rotation. )
Big Extras:
A learning guide for teachers to encourage added learning during play- language acquisition, sensory identification, learning during play A customized resource of how to incorporate program materials and activities into the classroom.
Seasonal Sensory Play Classroom Kit and Sensory Table Fillers
One hands-on sensory play professional development workshop for teachers.
One 60-90 minute Family Play Day. Weekend or weekday. A hands-on play event for students and their parents to get in on the fun! One annually for classrooms purchasing 3- 4 sessions. Available for purchase for all others.
Optional: Quarterly curriculum meeting for teachers or school administration to collaborate on class specific goals.
Classes taught by Program Director/Founder of Sensory Play Labs.
Quarterly newsletter style update letting parents know more about sensory play and details about the program and how activities benefit growth and development.
Each session builds on the last, providing students with new opportunities, new challenges, new activities and new sensory materials. Students progress to each session with new skills, an expanded sensory library and confidence in their own abilities.
Watch hesitant students gain confidence in themselves and lose the fear of messy hands. See impulsive sensory seekers explore in more complex ways. See the impact of consistent exposure to this fun and developmentally meaningful play.
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This option is a budget friendly way for students to start exploring and getting to know Sensory Play Labs.
Choose a 4, 6 or 8 week session.
Play Style: Discovery Station (60 min)
Each visit will include 1-2 discovery stations for the class to explore in mini groups of 3-8 students. Each group will have a turn to explore, rotating in and out of other typical classroom activities.
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Extra options just for our littlest explorers!
Style: Open Explore Discovery Stations offered as 30/45/60 minute visits.
Style: Discovery Stations + Messy Movers Activity (45-60 minutes)
Messy Movers Activity: Littles come together to explore an extra messy material in multiple ways. Sensory teacher guided to add in new elements in a structured way helping to extend engagement and prolong attention spans.
Style: (30 minutes) Messy Movers Activity only.
Materials are exciting for little hands while being safe and mouthing friendly. Options for taste safe and fully edible materials.
Customizable for class allergies. *We avoid most allergens. No nuts, eggs, dairy.
Pricing
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Programming offers a wide variety of price points for all recurring programs lasting 4-12 weeks+. Prices are determined by ages, number of students, style of play and material costs.
Visits range from $300-$800.
Price includes all messy and sensory materials used. Most are not reused and made specifically for each classroom. One visit features multiple sensory materials. Each visit offers new materials.
Included: A Sensory Play Labs curriculum specific to classroom ages and abilities. In classroom setup and cleanup. (No mess left behind.) Offsite cleanup of all messy tools, stations and creative play parts. Clean smocks and mini lab coats provided each week. A dedicated sensory teacher to run play.
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Help us keep pricing accessible by adding classrooms.
Booking 2 or more classrooms on the same will lower costs for every classroom.
(Ex: Book 2 Kindergarten classrooms or 1 preschool classroom + 1 Kindergarten classroom. 3-4 maximum.
INFANT VISITS
Exciting visits and programs for the littlest learners! Hands-on fun created to be safe and mouthing friendly!
Recommended for 6-18 Months.
Our littlest explorers dig and climb through fun-filled activities like a Messy Farm or Squishy Ocean. our infant program is packed with sense-stimulating, tactile materials, creative play parts, animals, squishy, stretchy, splashy things and single step "experiments" safe for mouthing. Even more fun play is available with option for taste safe play.
Infant Program and Booking Options
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Style: Big Discovery Stations Visits
Play time: 30/45/60 Minutes
Students engage in open explore play of 3-5 big discovery stations. Each station features it’s own messy sensory materials, creative play parts, sensory tools, containers and exciting add-ins. Each station invites students to investigate, experiment, explore, scoop, squish, mix, dig, dump, and discover through hands-on, open-ended play.
Included:
Sensory curriculum to align with age and developmental goals.
All sensory and messy materials.
Play teacher.
Smocks, cleanup materials.
Indoor/Outdoor options
Floor coverings.
Allergy friendly.
Customizable activities and materials.
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Style: Discovery Stations + Messy Movers Activity (45-60 minutes)
Style: Messy Movers Activity only. (30mins)
Messy Movers Activity: Littles come together to explore an extra messy material in multiple ways. Sensory teacher guided to add in new elements in a structured way helping to extend engagement and prolong attention spans.
Materials are exciting for little hands while being safe and mouthing friendly. Options for taste safe and fully edible materials.
Customizable for class allergies. *We avoid most allergens. No nuts, eggs, dairy.
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Bring the Play Lab to school for a celebration, holiday or just for a fun treat!
Students will dive into exciting sensory stations featuring messy and sense-stimulating materials to explore in all of the messy ways they love!
60 Minutes
Indoor/Outdoor options.
Smocks and cleanup supplies provided.
Music and bubbles available.
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A full sensory curriculum for students lasting September -June.
Four Sessions: Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer
Offered as weekly, bi-weekly and monthly visits.
Each Session:
8-10 Classes
4 sensory curriculums
New activities and materials
More opportunities to use newly acquired abilities
New chances to explore previous materials in new ways. (Not heavily repetitive.)
Reinforces all of the skill building and brain boosting developmental benefits.
Play Style: Big Discovery Stations + Individual Activities (every other week rotation. )
Big Extras:
A learning guide for teachers to encourage added learning during play- language acquisition, sensory identification, learning during play A customized resource of how to incorporate program materials and activities into the classroom.
Seasonal Sensory Play Classroom Kit and Sensory Table Fillers
One hands-on sensory play professional development workshop for teachers.
One 60-90 minute Family Play Day. Weekend or weekday. A hands-on play event for students and their parents to get in on the fun! One annually for classrooms purchasing 3- 4 sessions. Available for purchase for all others.
Optional: Quarterly curriculum meeting for teachers or school administration to collaborate on class specific goals.
Classes taught by Program Director/Founder of Sensory Play Labs.
Quarterly newsletter style update letting parents know more about sensory play and details about the program and how activities benefit growth and development.
Each session builds on the last, providing students with new opportunities, new challenges, new activities and new sensory materials. Students progress to each session with new skills, an expanded sensory library and confidence in their own abilities.
Watch hesitant students gain confidence in themselves and lose the fear of messy hands. See impulsive sensory seekers explore in more complex ways. See the impact of consistent exposure to this fun and developmentally meaningful play.
Check out even more types of activities here.
Why it’s easy for schools.
We handle everything. Kids focus on fun, teachers focus on goals and we take care of the rest.
✔️ No planning or prep
✔️ No cleanup for teachers or staff.
✔️ Flexible for indoor and outdoor locations- classrooms, gyms, grassy play spaces, playgrounds
✔️ Scales to fit class size, ability levels, and themes.
✔️ We adapt our activities to your space and your students.
Check out some of our favorite ways to play indoors and outside!
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FIZZY REACTION LABS
STEM with a twist of imaginary play!
Rescue bears trapped on a volcano island- erupting a rainbow of colors,.
Build a frozen frog pond before fizzing it away.
Grow and Swirl Gooey Rainbow Seeds
Fizzy Potions with Hidden Treasures
and more!
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WATER LABS
We turn water into potions, swirling flower petals, iridescent float & sink stations, neon green frog ponds full of tiny “tadpoles” and so much more. This play is packed with creative play parts, a variety of cups, scoops and containers tall, short and everything in between along with a series of STEM tools that are always a hit!
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DIG & SCOOP LABS
Bright & colorful tactile bins filled with different sensory bases with hand colored materials like rice, dry beans, pasta, grains, beads and more. Each filled with hidden gems, matching animals, items to scoop and sort. Students love being able to fill up containers of all sizes and test out a variety of sensory tools, funnels and other surprises.
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FLUBBER LAB & TEAM SLIMES
Flubber Lab
Calling it a Slime Lab, doesn’t quite cover it. This isn’t ordinary slime, no glue here, no ruined clothes. Play Labs Flubber Slime is made in 5 gallon batches. Squishy, sparkly and ready to be explored- it takes a team to try and lift it in the air. It also makes epic bubbles.
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SQUISHY, FOAMY, STRETCHY LAB
Scented Confetti Foam Lab- Squirt and Spray Paint Lab -Rainbow Spaghetti Cutting-Squishy “Jelly” Oceans-Stretchy Dough Gardens and so many more!
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