Button Sensory Bin!
We have been doing a lot with buttons around our house and to finalize, all that we have been doing is a Button Sensory Bin. This is great bin for scoping and pouring and learning shapes and colors. It is fun to look at all the different buttons and go through them all.
Button Sensory Bin is a great addition to the sensory bins on the site.
What is a Sensory Bin?
A sensory bin is typically a plastic tub or container filled with carefully selected materials and objects to stimulate the senses of children in preschool.
Sensory bins might have rice, water beads, corn, beans, or other types filled with small items.
Button Sensory Bin
The button sensory bin is an easy 2 minute sensory bin. Easy to setup and play in. It does not take much time to collect everything. This is great for those that need something to do while you are cleaning or doing other activities.
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Book to Read with the Button Sensory Bin
You can read Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. It goes great with the button sensory bin. You can even use the buttons from the bin on the book as you read.
What you need for the Button Sensory Bin
- lots of buttons
- cups – we uses small tupperware cups, but any small cup will do
- bin
How We Used the Button Sensory Bin
You will see a few ways we played in the button sensory bin.
Play in the Button Sensory Bin
She first looked through all the buttons in the bin. This is a read sensory experience with all the different textures and shapes of the buttons. It is fun to play in a bin of buttons. And there are so many different types of buttons you could use.
She first went through and found lots of the button letters in the bin. The button are the alphabet buttons
Explore colors of buttons
Amelia joined Mary and they pulled some of the buttons out to look at them better. We explore the shapes of the buttons. The many different colors and shades of the colors. We looked at one color and then explored another color.
Scoop and Pour the Buttons in the Sensory Bin
They poured the buttons into the bin from standing up. They loved the sound that the buttons made as they hit the other buttons in the bin.
You can do this while sitting as well.
You canpour the buttons from cup to cup. This is a great skill to work before learning to pour water.
This was an activity where I let them have the buttons and just stood back to see what they would do. They had a great time and loved it. A button bin is something we use often now in the house.
Check out these other easy to make sensory bins
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
This is brilliant – and I’m not just saying that because I have possibly the largest button collection in North America stashed in my sewing boxes! Pinning right now – thanks for sharing!
You are welcome. 🙂
My son made a shaker out of our corn sensory bin this week! He said he made it for me, though. That’s my sweet little guy! I really like all the colorful buttons. When I’ve done activities with buttons they have all been brown, black or clear (they came with the clothes).
It is really easy to find colorful buttons! I found them at various places AC Moore, Michael’s and Walmart.
Oh this looks like so much fun!! I don’t own any buttons though 🙁 I’ll have to buy some eventually! xx
It was fun for them and it is easy to find color button! I found them at various craft places: AC Moore, Michael’s and Walmart.