TTS Texture Collection Basket filled with tactile sensory play items including voile scarves, caterpillar, and butterfly, a 12-piece tactile sensory kit for babies and toddlers

TTS Texture Collection Basket

$177.03
$177.03 $285.53
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TTS Texture Collection Basket filled with tactile sensory play items including voile scarves, caterpillar, and butterfly, a 12-piece tactile sensory kit for babies and toddlers
  • TTS Texture Collection Basket filled with tactile sensory play items including voile scarves, caterpillar, and butterfly, a 12-piece tactile sensory kit for babies and toddlers
  • TTS Texture Collection Basket shown empty, displaying the wicker-style basket dimensions of 50cm D x 14cm H, suitable for early years tactile sensory exploration
  • TTS Texture Collection Basket filled with tactile sensory play items including voile scarves, caterpillar, and butterfly, a 12-piece tactile sensory kit for babies and toddlers
  • TTS Texture Collection Basket shown empty, displaying the wicker-style basket dimensions of 50cm D x 14cm H, suitable for early years tactile sensory exploration
TTS Texture Collection Basket

TTS Texture Collection Basket

$177.03
$177.03 $285.53

Touch, Feel & Describe with the TTS Texture Collection Basket – Tactile Exploration and Language Development Through Sensory Play

Description

The TTS Texture Collection Basket brings tactile sensory play to life from the very first days of a child's life. This 12-piece kit gathers a thoughtfully chosen range of materials - soft voile scarves, a velvety butterfly, a crinkly bee, a textured caterpillar, a small basket, a ball, a fruit friend, and a small texture mat - all nestled inside a generous 50cm wicker-style basket designed for reaching in and exploring. Available to families, educators, and therapists across North America, it's an invitation to touch, discover, and talk.

What makes this basket particularly compelling is the breadth of sensory input it offers. Children move between silky, rough, crinkly, and plush surfaces within a single sitting, building the kind of rich tactile awareness that underpins fine motor control, sensory discrimination, and early language. When an adult sits alongside and names what they feel together - "that's crinkly," "feel how soft this is" - vocabulary grows naturally and joyfully. That layering of tactile exploration and language development in one experience is the product's real strength.

Key Features of the TTS Texture Collection Basket

  • Diverse Textures in One Collection - Includes materials ranging from velvety and crinkly to smooth and soft, giving children a broad range of tactile sensory experiences that support sensory discrimination and curiosity-led learning
  • 12-Piece Curated Kit - A complete set including a basket, ball, small basket, bee, caterpillar, butterfly, four voile scarves, fruit friend, and small texture mat, providing varied open-ended play possibilities in a single resource
  • Portable, Go-Anywhere Design - Compact and lightweight at 50cm D x 14cm H, the basket travels easily to early years classrooms, therapy sessions, clinics, or family outings
  • Adult-Led and Independent Play - Structured enough to guide adult-facilitated exploration activities yet open-ended enough for independent discovery at any moment
  • Language Development Through Touch - Encourages rich descriptive language as children and caregivers explore and name the materials together, building vocabulary through tactile interaction
  • EYFS Curriculum Alignment - Supports Early Years Foundation Stage learning objectives across Physical Development, Expressive Arts and Design, and Communication and Language areas, making it a credible choice for nurseries, daycares, and early childhood educators
  • Suitable from Birth to 36 Months - Designed for the developmental window when tactile input and sensory exploration have the greatest impact on cognitive and language growth

Skills Your Child Develops with the TTS Texture Collection Basket

  • Fine Motor & Tactile Skills - Grasping, lifting, and manipulating varied objects develops hand strength and finger dexterity, building the foundational fine motor skills needed for self-care and early writing
  • Tactile Discrimination - Exploring contrasting textures - smooth versus crinkly, velvety versus woven - trains the brain to process and categorise sensory input, which supports sensory regulation over time
  • Language & Communication - Describing what they feel and what they see as they explore each object builds early vocabulary, encouraging children to form associations between sensory experiences and words
  • Imagination & Exploratory Play - Open-ended materials invite children to create their own play scenarios, using the voile scarves as wraps, the fruit friend as a prop, and the butterfly as the star of a story

This basket is genuinely joyful for all young children to explore - the textures are intrinsically interesting, the objects are beautiful, and the open-ended nature of the contents means no two play sessions are the same. It also holds particular value for children with sensory processing differences, neurodiverse learners, and children receiving occupational therapy, for whom consistent and varied tactile input supports the development of a regulated, responsive nervous system.

Ideal for: parents and caregivers of babies and toddlers, early years educators and nursery teachers, occupational therapists and allied health professionals, Montessori-inspired classrooms, inclusive daycares and childcare centres, sensory rooms and therapy spaces, and anyone building a rich learning environment for young children of all abilities.

Includes:

  • 1 Basket
  • 1 Ball
  • 1 Small Basket
  • 1 Bee
  • 1 Caterpillar
  • 1 Butterfly
  • 4 Voile Scarves
  • 1 Fruit Friend
  • 1 Small Texture Mat
Specs

Dimensions: 50cm D x 14cm H

Piece Count: 12

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