Tuff Spot A-Z Inspiration

Here are 75 Tuff Spot play ideas to get your creative juices flowing for the Tuff Spot A-Z Challenge. The activities are either taken from our Adventures of Adam blog or provided by our blogging friends.

Click on each picture to find out more information about each individual Tuff Spot activity. These ideas are given as a guide. You can follow these ideas exactly, adapt them in some way or think of your own – it is completely up to you. Some activities can be used for several different letters and some letters are obviously easier than others.

A handy shopping list for the Tuff Spot A-Z Challenge can be found here.

You can find more sensory play inspiration in our Tuff Spot A-Z Blog Hop and Pinterest Board.

 

Monday 9th March – A is for:

Art, Alphabet, Arctic, Apples, Aliens, Autumn, Animals, Astronaut

 

Tuesday 10th March – B is for:

Bubbles, Bird Seed, Buttons, Beads, Beach, Balls, Bubble Wrap, Baked Beans, Bricks, Building Site, Balloons, Book Themed Play, Bottles, Build A House, Bark, Bricks

 

Wednesday 11th March – C is for:

Cloud Dough, Cereal, Clothespins, Car Track, Cotton Wool, Clay, Colours, Colour Mixing, Contact Paper, City Landscape, Countryside Landscape, Chalk, Cement (sand and water), Cornflour, Compost, Castles, Coffee

 

Thursday 12th March – D is for:

Dinosaurs, Dice, Dragons, Diggers

 

Friday 13th March – E is for:

Elmer the Elephant, Eye droppers, Edible Play, Easter Eggs, Experiments, Egg Cartons, Earth

 

Monday 16th March – F is for:

Feathers, Flowers, Foil, Fabric Scraps, Farm, Fine Motor Skills, Finger Paint, Foam, Fort Building, Fairy Garden, Frozen, Frogs

 

Tuesday 17th March – G is for:

Glow in the Dark, Gravel, Grass, Garden, Growing, Gross Motor Skills, Golf Tees, Gloop, Glow Sticks, Grains, Guttering, Glitter

 

Wednesday 18th March – H is for:

Hearts, Hammers, Hot and Cold, Habitats

 

Thursday 19th March – I is for:

Ice, Insects, Ice Cream, Ice Cube Trays, Igloo

 

Friday 20th March – J is for:

Jelly, Jigsaw Pieces, Junk Mail, Jelly, Juicing Station

 

Monday 23rd March – K is for:
Kitchen cupboard items, Keys, Kites

 

Tuesday 24th March – L is for:
Leaves, Letters, Lids, Lentils, Lavender, Light and Dark

 

Wednesday 25th March – M is for:

Messy, Magnets, Masking Tape, Music, Mirror, Mark Making, Minature World, Marble Painting, Monsters, Maps, Money, Mud

 

Thursday 26th March – N is for:

Nails, Nuts and Bolts, Noodles, Numbers, Neon, Nature, Nursery Rhyme, Nocturnal Animals, Natural Materials

 

Friday 27th March – O is for:

Ocean, Oranges and Lemons Nursery Rhyme

 

Monday 30th March – P is for:

Play Dough, Paper, Popcorn kernels, Pom poms, Puzzle Pieces, Paper clips, Pasta, Pipe Cleaners, Painting, Pumpkin, Pirates, Polar Regions, Potion Making

 

Tuesday 31st March – Q is for:

Quiet, Q-Tips, Quills, Quick Set Up

 

Wednesday 1st April – R is for:

Rainbow, Ribbons, Reptiles, Rubber Bands, Room on a Broom, Rice, Ramps, Recyclables, Reflections. Rock Pool

 

Thursday 2nd April – S is for:

Shaving Foam, Shredded Paper, Slime, Straws, Snow, Smash, Spring Time, Spaghetti, Spiders, Sea Creatures, Scented Play Dough, Super Heroes, Sticky Paper, Seasons, Small World, Sponges, Sugar Cubes, Space, Spray paints

 

Friday 3rd April – T is for:

Trucks, Tongs, Tin Foil, Tinsel, Transport, Textures, Trains

 

Monday 6th April – U is for:

Underground, Umbrellas, Ultra Violet, Underpants (Aliens Love…)

 

Tuesday 7th April – V is for:

Vehicles, Volcanoes, Valentine

 

Wednesday 8th April – W is for:

Wheels, Waterbeads, Water, Worms, Winter, Whales, World

 

Thursday 9th April – X is for:

Xylophones, X-ray, Webs

Friday 10th April – Y is for:

Yarn, Yo-Yos, Yoghurt

Saturday 11th April – Z is for:

Zoo, Zips