Inclusive Play Summer Calendar - July 2026

1. Nature Scavenger Hunt
2. Build with old cardboard boxes - then knock the creations down
3. Water play day - add frozen animals and hammers to your water play
4. Obstacle course
5. Sensory play - make sensory rice stress balls
6. Sensory play - use cut up pool noodles, or blocks, and shaving foam to build towers
7. Garden camping - build a fort or a tent in the garden or living room
8. Use chalk or create chalk paint
9. Loose parts play - use the contents of your recycling bin to make and create
10. Create an outdoor musical wall using old kitchen utensils
11. Sensory play - wrap toys in tinfoil and create a toy rescue
12. Sensory play - use soil and water to create a mud kitchen
13. Sensory play - give all your toy animals a bath
14. Walk the plank obstacle course
15. Host a teddy bears’ picnic
16. Read your favourite stories then dress up as the characters
17. Sensory play - use milk cartons and old gutters to make a water wall
18. Sports day races in the garden or park
19. Make a family flag
20. Sensory play - use blended cheerios to make edible sand play
21. Sensory play - use water, flowers and old shampoo bottles to make potions
22. Sensory play - use rice, kitchen roll tubes and cars for a sensory bin
23. Sensory play - water and toothbrushes to get all the mud or sand off stones
24. Balloon tennis and balloon volleyball
25. Make play-doh or cloud dough
26. Puzzle play
27. Gather sticks and encourage them to be broken in different sizes
28. Sensory play - make salt dough ornaments
29. Play with your senses - create a touch and feel wall
30. Design small boats to race in water
31. Guess the smell sensory game