We love the idea of how Mount Sinai bloomed after the Torah was received and it’s so fun to combine that theme with some sensory play with this simple Felt Flower Mount Sinai Sensory Tray!
What You’ll Need
- Cardboard
- Scissors
- Tape
- Green felt
- Glue Gun
- Colored felt (pink, purple, red, orange and blue would all work), including yellow
- Peg Dolls
- Sensory Tray
- Sensory base (we used oatmeal)
Putting It Together
- Create your Mount Sinai by cutting out three triangles from the cardboard. Tape the edges together to make a pyramid (it doesn’t have to be perfect, or even align perfectly! Don’t worry!). Cover the cardboard with green felt, using a glue gun to glue the felt into place.
- Make felt flowers by cutting out petals from colored felt and gluing them together. Add a yellow circle in the middle.
- Set up the sensory tray by placing the Mount Sinai in the center and surrounding the bottom of the tray with your sensory filler of choice. We used oatmeal.
- Add peg dolls.
- Invite your children to make Mount Sinai bloom by decorating the mountain with felt flowers. Encourage some imaginary play with the peg dolls.
- Reading the book The Littlest Mountain might be a helpful introduction to Mount Sinai and how it bloomed after the Torah was received.
Finished & Loving It!
This was a very simple sensory set up, but as sensory-loving parents everywhere know, sensory play does not have to be complicated to be meaningful and fun!
My kids loved decorating the mountain with the flowers. Most kids enjoy the sensory feel of felt. It’s soft but not as floppy as cloth. My kids also love how it sticks to other pieces of felt! It makes for a very easy activity that they can have full control over.
I loved watching some of the peg doll imaginary play. Peg dolls open so many worlds of play. I enjoyed reviewing the holiday of Shavuot with the kids through our Shavuot 3 Part Cards and reminding them that Moses climbed Mount Sinai to receive the Torah, then brought the Torah down the mountain to the waiting Jewish people.
Our Felt Flower Mount Sinai Sensory Tray will remain on our Shavuot Shelfie so that the kids can return to it and continue to explore the sensory and holiday magic that it invokes!
Chag Sameach!
We have a whole page dedicated to Shavuot, our Shavuot Hub. Check it out! It includes some of the Shavuot activities we plan to do this year, as well as the activities we’ve done in previous years.
And don’t forget our Shavuot Montessori-Style 3 Part Cards, a wonderful way to introduce Shavuot! And, now we also have all 13 Jewish holidays bundled together in A Year of Jewish Holidays 3 Part Cards.
The following sites are amazing resources for learning more about this holiday:
Chag Sameach!
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