random sensory craveings ?

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hi not sure how many know me here i said a year ago about being in a care home i am now moving to a autsim only one where i have a bungalo there are bunglos around a care home in a fenced place i realy exited i am moving in 12 days i have mild low functining autism
staff have been comng for about a month or 2 so i can get used to them i have been speaking to them with my dynavox maestro and i have been there a few times it is about a hour away in the car i love sitting in the car a lot

latley ive been getting a lot more sensory craveings i guess its with moving i have made a big box of lids cans containers tubs bits of stuff sugar bowls balls skittles red bull cans dice cups dog chew rings spining tops baubles etc that i love to spin and watch them bounce i could do it for hours if the staff would let me do so (any ideas what i can add to it ? ) i found plastic wine glass things at the £1 shop they bounce so good

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i like those balls with LED that light up and twinkle

I wish they made indestructible lava lamps because I love watching them.

tangle toys (the one I like is tangle therapy because it has bumps all over it.)

theraputty or silly putty

I just thought of something else that's also great to have:

Weight, anything weighted.

Weighted vests and blankets are the best but honestly you really don't necessarily need to go even that far.

A bag of dried beans or rice could work. They're great to put on your sholders or arms or your lap or even your head. You can use them just in the package they come in from the store or somehow make a cloth bag with them in it.

Right now I am sitting on my couch with a homemade cloth bag of dried corn on my lap. I personally didn't make but I looks simple to make if you can find someone who has a sewing machine. It's just a long rectangle of fabric folded in half, sewn up on two sides, add the filling, then sew up the last side.

Those balls that if you pull on them they expand and look a bit like an atom
I just looked it up- they're called Hoberman spheres.

chewing rubber toys has been a crazing for me lately.

I like the feeling of water swooshing against my skin as I swim. I also like the cool sensation around my ankles as I walk in snow that's deeper than 10 inches. I go for lots of walks in the snow and ice my bad ankle that way. In the summer, I have to lay on the couch with an ice pack below my right ankle and heel and I don't like that, because I'm not moving around.

I like those bouncy balls you get for .50¢ out of gum ball machines. I like to bounce them and catch them coming back down. I also sometime spin small coins by twisting them between my thumb and index finger.

Yoyos and those cheap plastic tops might be fun too. Some of those textured board books for babies might be nice to. You know with flurry patches for chicks and bumpy hard patches for lizard scales.