Tactile Play- Dry and Messy

I have posted on this topic before, but I recently received an email from Fun A Day blog (I'm a subscriber), and I thought I'd share. My team recently has had some interesting responses from students with tactile sensory defensiveness in regards to not wanting to touch anything messy. The issues came up while working on daily living skills tasks that included making a simple snack using peanut butter- one student in particular was so distressed about getting peanut butter on his fingers that he refused to pick up the snack to take a bite, but rather brought his mouth to the edge of the plate to take a bite. With a situation like this, I would start with dry tactile input intervention/exposure, progress to tolerance of wet (but not sticky) tactile input, and finally to messy/sticky input. Fun A Day has the following blog posts that have some great tactile activity ideas, and you can find them here-

Dry:

https://fun-a-day.com/dry-messy-play-ideas/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%F0%9F%99%8C%F0%9F%8F%BC+Tons+of+Messy+Play+Ideas&utm_campaign=Tons+of+messy+play&vgo_ee=AEHVg7LvQ%2FsMgUmgQVgRplBNjIl2q6kUcKeCvmCOYDQ%3D

Messy:

https://fun-a-day.com/messy-play-recipes/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%F0%9F%99%8C%F0%9F%8F%BC+Tons+of+Messy+Play+Ideas&utm_campaign=Tons+of+messy+play&vgo_ee=AEHVg7LvQ%2FsMgUmgQVgRplBNjIl2q6kUcKeCvmCOYDQ%3D