Massage balls at the Childminding Shop. Sensory balls and bobbly massage balls

Special Needs Sensory Balls

5 fabulous sensory bobbly balls ideal for general playing or special needs games.  Available singly (random colour) or in packs of 5 or 25. Colours: Yellow, Blue, Green, Pink, Purple.

Sensory Balls enhance sensory stimulation:
When children hold a sensory ball, they appreciate the nubbly texture. When they squeeze one, they can feel the rubber stretch and contract beneath their fingertips. Sensory balls are also effective in massage stimulation. Softly rolling textured sensory balls on a child’s back or feet heightens sensory awareness. Sensory balls are favoured by teething babies who love to chew on safe, sensory balls.

Sensory Balls enhance gross motor skills:
From their first months to years later children improve both fine and gross motor skills with sensory balls. Infants crawl toward sensory balls enhancing eye/hand coordination, use muscles to reach a sensory ball, then grasp and hold on tight! As children grow, they enthusiastically squeeze, roll, throw and kick sensory balls.

Sensory Balls enhance socialization:
Young children interact with others as they roll a sensory ball across the floor to mum and dad, grandpa or grandma. Young children eagerly toss sensory balls to playmates.

Sensory Balls enhance visual and perceptual skills:
Vivid colors capture child interest. Unique projections peak visual curiosity

• Tremendous Sensory Play Toys
• Valuable as Perceptual-Motor Teaching Tools
• Visually & tactilely stimulating
• Enhance both fine motor skills and gross motor skills
• Encourage sensory exploration
• Stimulate interest in socialization with others
• Recommended by physical therapists and early childhood educators
• Well constructed of highly durable materials
• Recommended for ages 6 Months+

PLEASE NOTE:
Set of 5 balls will be dispatched inflated.
Set of 25 balls will be dispatched un-inflated but with free pump.

Reflex balls have been used for years for self-massage and have become popular in the therapy and medical domains for the treatment of lower back pain, particularly during pregnancy. For stimulating muscle reflexes and blood circulation or as a therapeutic massage ball to ease away tension and release muscles throughout the body.

Sensory techniques can be valuable tools to enable our children to learn and communicate.  This is not a new idea - speech and language therapist have long since realised the importance of stimulating all the senses in order to help a child with learning difficulties learn intentional communication.

Touch is a way of connecting, exchanging information and building a relationship - this forms the basis of all communication.  Communication is central to working with children with autism and those with learning disabilities.