Sensory Bins

Today, I would like to share an enter­tain­ing sen­sory activ­ity that I have been doing with my kids for the past few weeks.

I pur­chased a few small themed items from the scrap­book­ing store, placed them on a white piece of paper, took a pic­ture, labeled them using Pho­to­shop (you can use any image edi­tor), and then I printed it out.

In this instance I used beans and hid the zoo themed ani­mals in the beans. I placed the cards on the side of the tray so that my kids knew what they were look­ing for and were then able to match the items to their pic­tures.

When the kids were done play­ing with this I placed the cards and ani­mals in a small con­tainer. Each time I cre­ate an activ­ity like this I place the cards and items in a con­tainer and stack them on top of one another. I can then take them out and hide them in a big bowl/container with a dif­fer­ent sen­sory medium.

The items can be placed in water, rice, beans, oats, pom poms, sand, and what­ever else you have on hand.

What I love most about this is that you can mix it up in end­less ways.
Here is another  Sen­sory “Trea­sure” hunts that I recently set out for the kids:

Doc­tor themed items hid­den within rice.

If you are not able to make the cards then you can still hide ran­dom items and get your chil­dren to find them and name what they are:

Here I hid drag­on­flies and lit­tle bears. When the kids would find an item that was not a pom pom I would ask them what it is and they would tell me what it was called as well as the color it was.

It really does not mat­ter what you hide in there because the kids have a blast search­ing for any­thing out of the norm. This is an excel­lent activ­ity to keep your kids dis­tracted when you need a few min­utes to your­self, or to cook, or clean.

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