Lovise Søyland is a doctoral research fellow at the University of SouthEastern Norway. She has worked as a teacher and researcher in educational arts and crafts studies, specializing in digital technologies at the university since 2011.

This article explores children’s embodied ways of making sense through touch interaction. Due to digitalization, there is now a change, and children experience virtual materialities to a greater extent than physical ones in their learning environments. The following research question was asked: how do young children make sense through explorative touch interactions with physical and virtual materialities? Children’s sense-making was studied through an explorative inquiry supported by video documentation. The inquiry identifies how the combination of materials, digital technologies, and experiences of different materialities offer new potentials for exploration and touch interaction, transforming and shaping the children’s experience of the world through joint sense-making. It also identifies how the environment offer children possibilities to be co-creators and how important their past experience of material touch is in grasping virtual materiality.