Sensory materials have been developed to facilitate the formation of ordered thought. For developing minds, sensory input is a mechanism to understand the world around them. Children will often taste, touch, and listen to sounds they create by interacting with their environment. The senses can be categorized by visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, thermic, baric, stereognostic, and chromatic. By deepening the cognitive connections of these senses, children develop the capacity for deeper concentration and abstract thought.
