The Clothes Rail

One of the challenges when creating a multi-sensory structure is having somewhere to put it so that we can use it more than once without it getting in the way of other activities. This is equally true whether it is in the special school classroom or at home in your child’s bedroom. One way round this is to make it portable.

And one way to make it portable is to use a clothes rail – the sort that market traders have – then we can wheel it out when needed or pack it away and reassemble it on a future occasion. You could theme what hangs from the rail around one of the senses. For example:

A sound rail could be for the sound effects for a haunted house. Hang small instruments, cutlery, metal tubes, or any small objects that jangle when knocked together.

A tactile rail with different textured fabrics attached …..

A scented rail with bundles or herbs, scented soaps, a net with hay in …..

A light rail with fibre optics, pen torches …..