The Benefits of Sand Play

There are many benefits of sand play, the first being the development of the sense of touch through the texture of the sand. Sand play also develops the arm, wrist, and hand muscles, uses grasping and wrist control. It provides for creativity and imagination and is relaxing for the child. While playing with sand, a child also develops eye-hand coordination, experimentation with volume, weight, and measurement.

Social Development

Interactive and pretend play is how children learn and develop social skills such as 

verbal communication, sharing, helping, compromising, requesting, offering, and 

friendship building.  The sand/water table can be considered a smaller version of the 

beach!

Social skills include:

Peer interaction

Friendship-building

Sharing

Helping

Compromising

Speech and Language Development

The gathering of children around an emotionally engaging activity promotes the use of 

spontaneous speech and language.

Speech and language skills include:

Spontaneous speech

Question-asking

Requesting

Offering

PLAY, LEARN AND GROW TOGETHER