Sensory Activity of the Day - Cake pops!

So this weekend was my son's 4th birthday and I made cake pops (Angry Bird cake pops) for the first time ever. What a sensory experience! If you have never heard of cake pops, they are a ball of cake on a stick covered in icing or a chocolate shell. I started off with a cake round (it smelled sweet and felt a little warm even after cooling for an hour), crumbled it into a bowl (it was soft and squishy), and added icing (really sticky). After mixing the icing into the cake, I rolled the cake into balls (great for bilateral coordination and working on strengthening those pesky intrinsic muscles of the hand), Stuck a stick in the middle (hand-eye coordination/ bilateral coordination), and put them in the fridge to harden. I dipped them in chocolate. When the chocolate hardened, I used a piping bag (aka - a ziploc bag with the corner snipped off) to put decorations on the cake pop (good for fine motor control/ muscle grading). If you don't want all of the sugar of a traditional cake pop, you could do corn bread pops using plain yogurt or sour cream to hold them together - put beans or cheese  in the middle for a different texture and taste. Everything is a little more fun to eat when it's on a stick (so my son tells me). Getting kids into the kitchen is a great way to engage the senses!