Description
Enhance your early years environment with the Sensory Balls Treasure Basket, a thoughtfully curated collection of tactile balls designed to support heuristic play through open-ended, self-directed exploration. Carefully selected to suit small hands, the collection offers a rich variety of sizes, shapes, colours and textures, encouraging children to squeeze, roll, press, grasp and explore at their own pace. All resources are presented in a large striped basket with lid.
These inviting, tactile sensory balls encourage curiosity, choice and sustained engagement. Handling the balls supports reaching, grasping, transferring between hands and early rolling, helping to develop hand strength, hand–eye coordination and early ball control. As children experiment with movement and pressure, they begin to understand how objects respond to action, supporting early cause-and-effect learning.
The varied textures and sensory surfaces encourage exploration through touch, helping children notice differences in firmness, pattern and resistance. Repeated access to treasure basket resources builds confidence, focus and independence, while also creating opportunities for shared attention and interaction with others.
Children explore using their hands, fingers and whole bodies, supporting early physical development and sensory integration. The open-ended nature of the collection encourages curiosity, persistence and deep engagement. Adults can enrich learning by naming actions, describing textures and movements, and responding to children’s gestures and vocalisations, supporting early communication and language development.
Extend children’s exploration by combining the Sensory Balls Treasure Basket with other Early Excellence 1–2 years resources. Use alongside our other Treasure Baskets, Early Investigations Resource Collection, or Investigations In, Under, Through Resource Collection to create a rich, engaging environment that supports sensory play, physical development and growing independence.
Learning Opportunities
- Developing hand–eye coordination and two-handed manipulation
- Exploring a wide range of textures, shapes and sensory feedback
- Building hand strength through squeezing, grasping and releasing
- Supporting early sensory and body awareness
- Encouraging confidence and independence through self-directed exploration
This Sensory Balls Treasure Basket includes:
- A wide selection of sensory balls, featuring a range of textures, colours, and shapes. Approx size range 6cm-18cm
- 1 large natural basket with lid, approx. H22cm x D46cm at widest part, Inset W35cm
- Suitable from 12 months and over, with appropriate adult supervision.
Safety Information
For use with children aged 1–2 years only under appropriate adult supervision.
For full safety information, please see Product Care & Safety Guidance Leaflet.
Variations
Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown; however, we guarantee that you will always receive the same quality and value.
Secondary images are used for representation purposes only
