Sensory activities like this build new pathways in your child’s brain. As they see how their actions affect something in their environment, they form neural connections and associations. This project also provides your child with: 💪Gross motor exercise. Turning the salad spinner is a whole-body effort that strengthens their core, shoulder, and upper arm muscles. 🧠 A lesson in the physics concepts of speed and force. The faster the spinner goes, the more centrifugal force spreads the paint. 🎨 Color mixing experience. Chosen paint colors collide, creating new hues. 💫 A greater sense of empowerment, confidence, and autonomy. When they observe how their choice of paint color, their placement of it, and the speed at which they propel the spinner alter a paper plate inside it, they recognize their ability to effect change.