As a follow-up to my Sensory Fun:  Heavy Work Activities article, I have now published Sensory Fun:  Messy Play; Messy Play Helps Children with Tactile Defensiveness.

All kids love to get messy, right?  Actually, that is not the case.  Children with tactile defensiveness do not like to get messy leading to obvious distress on their part.  Finger painting, running barefoot through the grass, and eating with their hands are not comfortable activities for children with tactile defensiveness.  Sensory Fun:  Messy Play lists easy to implement at home ideas that are used by occupational therapists to increase a child’s receptiveness to tactile input.