Hands-on play that packs a punch.
High impact, fun-filled and therapeutically beneficial messy and sensory play!
Sensory and Messy Play Fun & Enrichment
For therapy centers looking to boost engagement, session impacts and fun!
Play for ages 2-10 years.
Options available for a wider age range upon request infant-adult.
Give your clients a chance to dive into the excitement and fun of messy sensory play with visits from Sensory Play Labs! We make it effortless to provide high-impact, irresistibly fun, messy sensory play right in your center. No work for staff. We hand create colorful, messy, sense-stimulating materials. Set-up play in your space. Guide play with a play teacher and we clean it all up when it’s done (no mess left behind.)
“I can’t believe that everyone interacted. This is incredible!” ABA Program Director
Visits are play-based and completely hands-on experiences featuring multiple attention grabbing and attention keeping activities. Exciting and curiosity inspiring sensory stations that feature our own messy materials, creative play parts, tools and other fun sensory surprises.
What to expect from Sensory Play Labs.
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Big fun. Big benefits.
Visits are more than just fun! Play is thoughtfully designed with activities to create enthusiastic engagement and self-motivated skill building.
Play that promotes:
Language acquisition, gross and fine motor skills, coordination. balance, dexterity, pre-writing.
Independent problem solving.
Sensory tolerance for better eating and calmer daily care routines. Play is so fun it promotes self-motivated sensory exposure and tolerance practice.
Promotes emotional regulation with play that is activating and play that is calming.
Executive function skills, decision making, multi-step processing.
Promotes low risk, high impact cause/effect reactions (messy ones not usually allowed!)
Life skills like pouring, scooping, mixing and washing. Each activity includes a variety of unique sensory tools and containers.
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Whether it’s a one time fun visit or a recurring session there are many ways to bring the fun to your center.
We work with centers for autism support and other physical and mental disabilities.
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.
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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 created by us just for your center.
Play that is thoughtfully designed to inspire curiosity and naturally motivate skills practice.
Activities provide multi-sensory engagemnt to
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Play teachers: Each visit is led by an experienced play teacher that facilitates setup, cleanup and guides the play. They encourage exploration, introduce new elements throughout and expands & adjusts play live.
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Each activity is packed with sensory materials. Bright, colorful, sense stimulating materials to scoop, squish, splat, mix, dig, dump and pour and explore. Materials are colorful and curiosity inspiring. Messy materials made just for your center, most are created by us and are unique to us.
We use use non-toxic, child-friendly ingredients and can be customized for different needs. Taste-safe, edible and mouthing friendly options too.
It’s easy to offer!
We handle everything. Kids focus on fun, RBT’s focus on goals and we take care of the rest.
✔️ No planning or prep.
✔️ No cleanup for staff.
✔️ Flexible for indoor and outdoor locations.
✔️ We adapt our activities to your space and your needs.
Booking Options
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Bring the Play Lab to your center as a special treat!
Play Style: Discovery Stations (60 Minutes)
Celebrate the start of summer, a holiday or just for a fun treat!
Children will dive into multiple exciting sensory stations featuring colorful, messy, sense-stimulating materials to explore. Multiple activities per visit each with it’s own fun theme, messy materials, sensory tools and creative play parts!
Indoor/Outdoor options.
Includes:
Materials
Sensory teacher to run the fun.
A sensory friendly variety of smocks and mini lab coats.
Wipes, paper towels and other cleanup supplies provided
Fun music available.
Indoor floor coverage
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Book a Session:
4- 12 week session lengths.
Weekly, bi-weekly or monthly options.
Book multiple sessions, available year round.
Play Style: Discovery Stations (60 minutes)
Children will dive into multiple exciting sensory stations featuring colorful, messy, sense-stimulating materials to explore. Multiple activities per visit each with it’s own fun theme, messy materials, sensory tools and creative play parts!
Indoor/Outdoor options.
Includes:
All messy materials, created by us just for your center.
Sensory teacher to run the fun.
A sensory friendly variety of smocks and mini lab coats.
Wipes, paper towels and other cleanup supplies provided
Fun music available.
Recurring Program Details:
Each visit:
Introduces new sensory stations, new materials, themes, creative play parts and tools.
Features sensory stations that repeat and can be expected each time. The mix is to build comfort through consistent exposure while keeping excitement high with new things.
New sessions:
Each 4-12 week session introduces new materials, themes and activities as well as familiar favorites.
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Pilot Program: Home Play Kits for an RBT guided activity done during in- home visits. We provide everything needed for a one on one play session!Available for some locations. RBT’s pick up their Kit at their center on the day of their client visit.
Included 1. Pre-made sensory materials. 2. Tabletop sized sensory bin. 3. Creative play parts & sensory tools. 4. Child smock. 5. 6. Disposable wet mat. Play guide for RBT’s for setup, steps to add new elements throughout play and ways to extend engagement. Play is child-led and open ended which makes it easy for RBT’s to facilitate play. Each can adjust the activity to the session as they feel best supports their client.
Most messy materials are not reused and is theirs to keep.
RBT cleans and returns the sensory bin, tools, creative play parts and smock.
Pricing
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Programming offers a variety of price points for all recurring programs. Prices are determined by ages, number of participants and material costs.
Visits typically range from $500-$1200/visit.
Price includes all messy and sensory materials used, most handmade, not reused and created just for your center.
Included: A Sensory Play Labs visit or session designed just for your center and clients. On-site setup and cleanup. (No mess left behind.) Off Site cleanup of all messy tools, stations, smocks and all other messy things. A sensory friendly variety of clean smocks and mini lab coats provided each week along with wipes and paper towels.
A dedicated sensory teacher to run play each week that gets to know your clients and can tailor play to be even more fun and even more beneficial.
Additional payment model: While typically a center pays directly, we’re able to accommodate a model where parents sign up and pay for their child directly to us. We aren’t able to accept insurance, but this can be a good option for funds from the state parents use at their discretion.