Sensory bins have always been a huge part of our after school and summer activities. I’m always looking for wants to make them fun. But wait your kids are not preschool and kindergarten age. Yup, that is right they are older but STILL love the bins. Each bin provides them a great way to calm…
New Year’s Eve is all done, and there are loads of confetti and sequins everywhere. Well, guess what? We took that and put it in a sensory bin to play with! It is a simple and easy bin to make and easy to change up for any season. I can hear you thinking, your girls…
My girls still love sensory bins, and water beads happen to be some of their favorite things to play with. They find them calming and relaxing. We also love changing up the sensory bins for the seasons! This bin is loads of hours of play, plus it is fun to dig through the bin and…
Space is one theme you can do at almost any time. There is always something you can do. It can be as simple as walking outside and looking at the moon and stars. My girls have been interested in stars for a long time. My husband put stars on their ceiling in their room, and…
‘m always looking for new sensory bins that I can do with my girls. It means being creative sometimes. My girls wanted to do another Shark Water Bead Sensory Bin and I thought it would be fun to change it up a bit. We did some Prehistoric Sea Life instead. My girls love learning about…
Messy, messy sensory is great fun by mixing two of our favorite sensory play together: water beads and shaving cream! My girls just love having sensory bins. We always have a sensory bin up to play in. After the last water bead sensory bin, I took the beads and added it to shaving cream to…
We have been having some ocean themed fun at our last few weeks of preschool. This big and smalls sensory bin was easy to put together and loads of fun. Who says you have to do a big sensory bin to have fun. One thing I love about this bin is the size difference in…
Sensory bins are always fun to explore. This is a fun two color water beads with an Easter egg theme to it. It is always fun to see what fun This was a fun sensory bin because the water beads made the eggs stick to hands. Plus we did a few hands on activities with…
Seasonal sensory bins are always lots of fun. This St Patrick’s Day sensory bin is tons of fun to play in. You can see many of the themes from St. Patrick’s Day in it. It has a rice base that makes it easy and fun to play in. It is fun to explore different texture…
In our study of penguins, we put together a simple Penguin water bead sensory bin. This was a great way to explore them in a 3D environment. My girls love using water beads in the sensory bins. They give a good sensory experience while exploring the differences between the penguins on the ice and those…
Snowflakes are a great theme for the winter. They come in all shapes and sizes. This sensory bin was tons of fun to explore and look at the different textures and weights of all items in the bin. This is also a great white themed sensory bin as well. We did a lot of fun…
Dreidels and candles are a big part of Hanukkah. We always have fun exploring them in different ways. A few years ago we did a
Christmas lights are one thing my girls just love to go out and see. Bringing part of that into activities has been tons of fun. This sensory bin is an extension of the
We have been doing lots of number learning this last year. This Number Sensory Bin is a twist on the ABC Sensory Bin. The ABC bin was a favorite at our house for many months. We used it for many different projects around the house. This number sensory bin has been tons of fun for…
Halloween has so many different things you can explore. This Eye Ball Sensory Bin was lots of fun to explore different weights. There were different eyeballs that were very light to hold and the rock was very heavy compared to the erasers. This was also great to look at the shapes of the eyes ball…
We have been exploring the colors of red, yellow and orange this fall. One thing we did during this time was a fun water bead sensory bin gem hunt! This is a fun activity for looking for colored glass gems in clear water beads. This was tons of sensory filled fun. This is great to…
In the fall we love learning about leaves and doing activities with them. We are always doing some activities with them. This year we did a full 2 weeks on the study of leaves. As part of that we did these hands on activities and sensory bin. When we have a sensory bin I always…
We have been having an apple theme start to our month of September. It is always fun to do some fun activities with apples at the start of apple picking season. I love having sensory bins in the house. Not only are they fun but they give some extra sensory input when you might need…
Today post is a guest post by Emma from P is for Preschool! I usually try to limit our messy sensory play to outdoors. But with a series of rainy days, we were all getting a little stir crazy from too much in-the-house time. And, you know, desperate times and all that. So I brought…
It is full-on summer here and we are really enjoying it. We love to go to the beach but can’t always happen. Today we are bringing the beach to us! Check out our fun Beach Sensory Bin! This goes great with the Free Beach Pack. With all our sensory bins or activities I really do…
With the 4th of July coming up we have started a few fun activities. Today’s activity is a star sensory bin. This is something that could be used at any time and would be great for a space theme as well. There are two different types of stars in the bin: Buttons and beads. Sensory…
If you have followed me for a while you will know that we do a lot of simple and easy sensory bins. I was so happy to be apart of the the 40 Days of Sensory Bins! I just had to do a button sensory bin. I have done several of them over the last…
We continue our Dr Seuss week with another fun activity we did this week! My girls just love Green Eggs and Ham. It is the most read book at our house right now. My middle learned and memorized the pages so she could read it. I decided it was time to challenge what she did…
Last year we had tons of fun with a Valentines Sensory Bin. It was loads of fun and I went to put the same bin together but remembered some fun heart things I found at the craft store. So they got put into it. The book we read with it this activity was a The…
Not all sensory bins have to be complex or have various themes to them. Some sensory bins can be used year round. One such bin is this wood bead sensory bin. This is simple and easy to put together. Plus you can add items to the bin or take away if you want. This is…
Christmas is a time full of sounds and smells. We thought it would be fun to explore a few different sounds. This was a fun sensory bin to put together and watch them explore. You never know what they will do with the bins! Plus there is a fill fine motor fun as well. There…
This was a fun hands on learning Thanksgiving sensory bin. We did a Thanksgiving Sensory Bin that was similar but slightly differnt. Sensory bins are a great way to explore different types of learning. And this is a book and sensory bin activity for Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving Squanto’s Journey Sensory Bin is a great addition…
Last year about this time we had a Button Sensory Bin. We loved it. Now we have a slight take on part of it with an ABC Sensory Bin. We have been using these buttons and letter tiles forever. It was just after Halloween my youngest walks up with the alphabet buttons, bin, rice and…
I was asked recently to post more of the sensory bins that we have been doing. So here is the most recent bin we have been using. We are exploring some of the color of Halloween: white & orange. Quick warning please don’t use beans in a sensory bin with kids that will eat them….
For Halloween a fun hands on bats and spider bin! The Spider & Bat Sensory Bin is a great addition to the Halloween activities and sensory bins on the site. This is a theme we are doing this year Spiders and Bats. We are very much enjoying it. Part of this was a fun sensory…