My boys love when I surprise them with a sensory bin full of fun things to touch and experiment with! The other day, when I was getting ready to decorate the house for Christmas, I threw some things into our sensory bin that would help keep their little hands and growing minds busy. I tried to include materials that had interesting shapes, textures, colours, and sounds. This is what I came up with:
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Sensory bins are a great way for a child to explore and experiment with different textures, sizes, shapes, colours, and measurements, while also developing their fine motor skills and encouraging scientific observation, through play. What I love about them is I can put a bunch of stuff into a bin and it keeps M occupied for almost a full hour.For M’s Fall Sensory bin I included:
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Nothing brightens up a dreary day like Rainbow Rice! It’s really simple to make and it can be used in a plethora of ways. Let’s start with how to make it.
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Summer is all about playing outside in the backyard, searching for bugs, lounging in the kiddie pool, water fights, Popsicles, BBQs and frozen dinos! M is really into dinosaurs lately, so I thought he would enjoy a little problem-solving activity involving dinosaurs and ice. All I did was fill a flat basin with a bit of water, added in some plastic dinos and few drops of blue food colouring, and placed it in the deep freeze overnight. The next morning I put a wooden hammer and chisel, a water-gun and watering can, and the frozen block of dinos into M’s DIY Sensory/Water Table, and told him to try to get them out. Then I sat under the umbrella and started to read my book 🙂 🙂
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I’d been looking into purchasing a water-table for M, but I really didn’t want to buy a cumbersome, plastic play table that’s difficult to store and would eventually end up in the landfill when M and B have outgrown it; so instead I convinced my awesome husband to make one out of PVC pipe and a couple of clear plastic tubs. I know what you’re thinking, ‘that’s still plastic!’ True, but you can always reuse plastic tubs for storage, and when you put it away for the winter, it’s easy to dismantle and it hardly takes up any space. It’s also a super inexpensive way to have sensory tables in your classroom for your students to experiment with different textures and measurements.
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