Penguin Rice Sensory Bin for Sensory Play
We loved the Penguin Water Bead Sensory Bin, but I know that not everyone likes using water beads for the sensory bins.
This simple Penguin Rice sensory bin is great for kids to explore penguins in a simple to set up sensory bin with penguins, rice, and acrylic rocks.
You still have the fun sensory play with penguins that kids just love.
The Penguin Rice Sensory Bin is a great addition to the penguin activities 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.
Penguin Rice Sensory Bin
The penguin sensory bin is filled with penguins, rice, and two colors of blue acrylic rocks. It is a fun way to explore land and the ocean with this penguin sensory bin.
It is a simple mix of items for kids to play in.
Sensory bins don’t have to be complicated with lots of different parts. And this is a great way to look at penguins and see what could be called ocean and land with kids.
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Pengiun Book to use with the Penguin Sensory Bin
You will find a lot of great books about penguins, but one of our favorites is Penguins by Gail Gibbons. It has information about penguins, and you can learn about a few of the penguins as well.
What we used to make the Penguin Rice Sensory Bin
Ways to Use the Penguin Sensory Bin
You will see a few ways we have used the penguin sensory bin.
Play in the Penguin Sensory Bin
You can have fun just playing and exploring the penguin sensory bin. Kids love sensory play, and this is a great way to get it.
You can move the penguins between the land and the ocean. You can talk about why penguins go between land and the ocean.
You can also talk about the penguin names. You can use the penguin pack vocab cards to help with different types of penguin names.
Put all the Penguins in the Ocean
You can have fun giving a few simple directions as well. You can have them put all the penguins in the ocean. You can also have them put them all on the land. A few simple words to give them a fun activity to do with the penguin sensory bin.
Make shapes with the Blue Rocks
You can make shapes around the penguins. You can have them use the blue rocks on the rice and make a shape. You can tell them the shape, or give them shape cards.
Penguin Counting with the Sensory Bin
You can have kids do a little math with the sensory bin. There are 10 penguins so it works great to work on ways to add up to 10.
You can have them sort equal numbers of penguins on land and in the ocean.
You can tell them to put three one land and the rest in the ocean. Then they have tell you have many are in the ocean and how many on lands. You can point out that 3 plus 7 equations ten. A little bit of fun math.
More Animal Sensory Bins for Kids
The Penguin Water Bead Sensory Bin is a fun sensory activity for kids to do. A great way to see the different types of penguins and play in water vs. land areas.
Another fun sensory bin is the Kinetic Sand Arctic Animals Themed Sensory Bin. You can explore the different animal types in the arctic.
Penguin Activities for Kids
Penguin Weekly No-Prep Packs has 6 grade level options with PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You have 5 days of printables with 4 pages for each day.
You can work on beginning addition with the Penguin Addition Ten Frame Cards. They have addition from 1 to 10. You have cards filled out and bland cards with a recordings heet. This is a great kindergarten math activity and a great review for first grade.
Penguin Activities Pack is great for kids working on prewriting, ABCs, numbers and shapes. You have clip cards, easy reader books, tracing strips and no-prep worksheets.
The Penguin ABC Matching Printable is a great way to work in initial sound for kids! You can match pictures and letters.
Penguin Number Dot Marker & Counting works on numbers 0 to 20. They come in color and black & white options.
Penguin Counting Mat Printables – Numbers 1 to 10 has a counting mat for each nubmer that work great with one to one correspondence. And can be used with fun penguin counters.
Check out all the fun Polar Animal activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com