Sensory Sand – Easy to Make and Taste Safe!

This sensory sand recipe is made with just a few taste-safe ingredients including stale cereal! The consistency is the coolest – it can be both moldable and crumbly, but isn’t sticky! It is so fun to squeeze and break up in the hand, and it’s also perfect for small world play set ups like ones that are construction or beach themed! 

Taste Safe Sensory Sand

This sensory sand recipe is safe for even the littlest of kiddos to play with because it is made with taste-safe ingredients. What is taste-safe? It means that if a child were to put the sensory sand in their mouth, it would be completely safe. Could they eat it? Sure, but it’s not going to taste very good! Plus, there’s a big reason to discourage it. This is the perfect time to teach young kids to not put sensory bases in their mouth even if they are taste-safe, so when they start playing with the real stuff they don’t try to eat it!

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How to Make Sensory Sand

Watch the video to see how quick and easy it is to make sensory sand! It’s so easy you and your kiddo could even make it together! We used stale cereal instead of flour (because why not use it instead of toss it?), but you could also toast up some flour and use that instead.

Once the sensory sand is made, you can decide whether you want to combine it with a small world set up, like we did with a construction theme! 

Tips for Making Sensory Sand

Instead of Stale Cereal. The key ingredient we used was stale cereal, but that’s just because we had some to use up. And using stale cereal for play instead of throwing it away is a total win in our book! However, if you don’t have any on hand, you can use regular flour. Make sure you toast the flour in the oven at 350F for at least 5 minutes though because flour is consider raw until cooked!

Blend Until Powdery. You’ll want to make sure you blend your cereal until it is like powder. You don’t want chunks of cereal in there for your kiddo to think they can eat! (Of course, if they do, it is taste-safe, but the goal is to not encourage that!)

Too Sticky or Dry? If too sticky, add a little more corn starch until the consistency is moldable when you squeeze it and crumbly if you squish it up. If too dry, be sure to add a little more vegetable oil.

How to store and How long. In a sealed container, we store our DIY sensory sand in the fridge for up to a month!

Printable Worksheets for the Transportation Fan!

If your kiddo loves construction vehicles, they are probably a transportation fan! From trains to planes to buses and boats, we created a bundle full of early childhood activities that integrate all things transportation!

These worksheets feature vehicles that move on land, air and sea while giving your little one a strong foundation for early childhood education skills.

Topics covered include letter writing, phonics, number recognition, counting, scissor skills, patterning, color recognition, and so much more.

And for more hands on transportation crafts, definitely check out our Milk Jug Car Wash and DIY Race Track made out of paper tubes!

Fine Motor Skills. Squish, squeeze, scoop, transfer, mold, and beyond, sensory sand like play dough and other sensory bases is fantastic for strengthening the little muscles in hands and fingers!