Sensory Crafts - Paper Plate Dinosaur Craft - Toilet Roll Heroes - Pretend Snow - Ninja Stress Balls

Sep 16, 2026

A set of simple, hands-on sensory craft activities designed to support texture, colour, and tactile exploration. The guide includes instructions for creating a dinosaur from a paper plate, building superhero characters using toilet rolls, making pretend snow by mixing baking soda with hair conditioner, and producing ninja stress balls using balloons filled with flour or play dough. Each craft lists materials, provides step-by-step preparation, and emphasizes allowing sections to dry and handling the final items for sensory play.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryPosters

FormatPDF

Pages5

Reading Time2 min

AccessFree to download

Plate Dinosaur Craft

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Toilet Roll Heroes

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Shaving Foam & Water bead Craft

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Pretend Snow

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Ninja Stress Balls

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Plate Dinosaur Craft What you need Paper Plate Paint/Colours Card Glue Pegs Pencil Instructions Using your paper plate cut them in half. Colour or paint that half of your plate. Front and back. If you have pegs paint or colour them too, if you don’t any other material would work. Wait for it to dry before following next steps. With remaining parts of the other plate, make the spikey back. To create the head draw and outline onto card and then carefully cut, add eyes a mouth and then stick to your dinosaurs’ body. Lastly attach your dinosaur feet. Toilet Roll Heroes What you need Toilet Rolls Paint Pencil Glue Card Instructions Using your toilet roll holder start drawing out your superhero design. With your paper or card, draw out a cape for the heroes and a jacket for ‘The Joker’. Cut them out if they are not the colour you want paint or colour, leave to one side for now. Once you are happy with your designs on the toilet rolls, start painting or colouring, be very careful to stay in the lines and let sections dry between painting, section by section. When you are finished painting all the design, leave to dry completely and then using your glue add the cape/jacket. Shaving Foam & Water bead Craft What you need Shaving Foam Water Beads Instructions Water beads are something you will have to order, but they are definitely worth it. Here is a link: [https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=waterbeads&ref=nb_sb_noss_1](https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=waterbeads&ref=nb_sb_noss_1) To make the sensory tray, you simply spray shaving foam into a container, you could also add food colouring if you wanted. Then add your water beads. It is create for the different textures. Pretend Snow What you need Baking Soda White Hair Conditioner Container Instructions Mix 2 1/2 cups of pure baking soda with 1/2 a cup of white hair conditioner and you have hours of sensory play. It really is THAT simple. You can add more baking soda as you wish to make your“snow” less wet if you’d like. If you need to make a larger batch of snow you can easily multiply this recipe. Ninja Stress Balls What you need Balloons – white or yellow for the face, and other colours for the ninja mask Scissors Sandwich Bags Flour or play dough Ballpoint pen Instructions Fill a sandwich bag with 3/4 cup of flour (or play dough) . Filling a sandwich bag is SO much easier than trying to stuff a balloon with flour! Fold over the baggie and squeeze out all the air. Cut the blowing end off of a white balloon so that you are left with a round balloon with a hole. Stuff the bag filled with flour or play dough into the balloon. Cut off the blowing end of another balloon. Cut an opening for the ninja face. Then, stretch this balloon over the white balloon with the opening facing the opposite way (so that the flour bag can’t come out) . Add a ninja face with a ballpoint pen the face still looks great even after lots of handling.

FAQs

What materials are needed for the paper plate dinosaur craft?

You need paper plate, paint or colours, card, glue, pegs, and a pencil, plus the follow-through steps for cutting, painting, and assembling the dinosaur parts.

How do you make pretend snow from baking soda and hair conditioner?

Mix 2 1/2 cups of pure baking soda with 1/2 a cup of white hair conditioner, then adjust by adding more baking soda for less wet “snow” or multiply the recipe for a larger batch.

How are ninja stress balls assembled using balloons and flour or play dough?

Fill a sandwich bag with 3/4 cup flour (or play dough), squeeze out air, then stuff the bag into a balloon. Cut and shape additional balloon pieces to create a ninja face opening, stretch them over the first balloon, and add a face with a ballpoint pen.

Sep 16, 2026

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