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Sensory bins: Dollar Tree and similar stores always have great collections of plastic trays and tubs. Let's think about sensory play we can provide to children under the age of five in our home: Fine motor skills are refined, gross motor skills become managed, language develops, cognitive skills develop as a child problem solves and thinks things through. The brain is challenged to monitor all the senses and balance them, thus helping to create a sense of calm. Touch, smell, sound.these all work together to find the spot in a brain that responds by focusing. Sensory play begins with understanding the importance of engaging as many senses as possible.

Sensory play is just that-play that involves multiple senses. Playing with slime or listening to music. But did you know that sensory play is very basic? Riding a bike, for example. Many people think of sensory toys as those needed when a child is in a state where self-calming is not possible. The TSA at our local airport has been providing the same toys and recently used these to calm an overstimulated child. But it might make sense to wear these in a room kept clean with regular vacuuming and dusting.Recently, our local emergency services announced that they would be supplying their ambulances with sensory toys to aid in calming children during a medical crisis. Scooting yourself along a wall or stretch-dancing your way into corners is also awkward.

From our prior experience of owning a similar product, we found you can’t cover nearly enough ground to truly clean a floor before dust-mop slippers load up with debris. The bottom line? The shoes aren’t effective enough to replace a good dust mop, but they are fun to wear and will actually capture dust if you slide across the floor Risky Business–style. The bottoms of the shoes come off easily, and you can put them in the washer, like regular dust-mop pads. The ringlets are made of coral fleece (a heavier fabric than polar fleece) and chenille (a top choice for dust-mop material). We found that we loved shuffling around in the fluffy house shoes while picking up dust, and the floppy beige ringlets felt distinctly Muppet-like. While researching this guide, we discovered the Hanitom Lazy Mop Slippers and became obsessed. Also, the Casabella broom doesn’t come with a dustpan, but we have that covered. This broom doesn’t come with a warranty, but our long-term testers report that it’s still going strong. And the bristles are thinner than those on other brooms, so the head feels soft and pliable.

The Casabella broom was also the most balanced, and its handle was the most comfortable to hold of any model we tested. This broom cleaned spills of cat litter, flour, rice, and diatomaceous earth (which we used to simulate dust particles of varying size) better than any other model we tested. The broom’s 2,548 bristles (by our count) are densely packed and distributed evenly, and they have flagged (split) tips, which excel at picking up fine, dusty debris. Since the 2014 version of this guide, Casabella has changed the model slightly (it hasn’t updated the online photos to reflect this), but the slightly smaller head isn’t any less powerful. After eight years as our top pick, the Casabella Wayclean Wide Angle Broom is still the single best sweeper we’ve tested, with a bristle quantity, design, texture, and density no other broom could match.