Fall Leaves Sensory Bin
Outside, the leaves are falling from the trees, and a fun and simple leaf sensory bin is great for the fall season.
This fall leaf sensory bin has red leaves, yellow leaves, orange leaves, and green leaves. Plus you will see a few different types of leaves in the sensory bin as well.
This is a simple preschool and kindergarten sensory bin you can set up in a few minutes.
The Fall Leaves & Rice Sensory Bin is a great addition to the fall activities and 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.
Fall Leaves & Rice Sensory Bin
This fall leaf and rice sensory bin have a rice filler with leaves as part to make it a ball sensory bin with leaves. We have it in a small bin to a simple and easy sensory bin for all of fall.
A Book to Read with Fall Leaf Sensory Bin
One fall book that we love to read is Red Leaf Yellow Leaf. It has so many great pictures of fall trees and leaves. We read it every year. It might just be our favorite fall book. And it has so many of the fall leaf colors you can see. So it goes great with this sensory bin.
What we used to make the Fall Leaves & Rice Sensory Bin
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Ways to Use the Fall Leaves & Rice Sensory Bin
You are going to see a few ways that we have used this fall sensory bin. And remember your kids might have fun ideas well.
Play in the Fall Leaf Sensory Bin
An important part of sensory bins is playing in the sensory bin. Sensory bins are made for sensory play. You might find that kids love the play in the bins.
They can scoop, pour and run through fingers through the sensory bin. And it is great for sensory feedback for kids who need that extra sensory play.
Sort the Leaves
Since this bin has different types of colors of the leaves you can have kids sort the leaves. You can do this by color or type of leaf.
You can see below we sorted the leaves by color. And it is fun to big and find all the different colors in the sensory bin.
Compare the Leaves in the Sensory Bin
But since there are different types of leaves you can ask kids to tell you what is the same and different about the leaves. You can talk about the shapes of the leaves. You could ask if kids can seen them out side.
You can talk about the green color and the different colors of the leaves. If is a fun way to explore leaves in the sensory bin.
Play in the Sensory Bin
As always it is important to play in the sensory bin. And that may be all that kids do in a sensory bin. And you will see just how much fun playing in the sensory bin can be.
Plus this is great for all of all until Thanksgiving.
More Fall Leaves Activities for Kids
The Leaves Cookie Cutter Painting is a fun fine motor painting activity that kids can have tons of fun with. You can use fun leave and fall cookie cutters for this painting.
Fall Stamping is using cookies cutter to make a fall painting. This is a simple painting activity for preschool and tot kids for stamping the cookie cutter on the page.
Leaves Activities Pack has activities for 2 to 5 plus some older math and language activities for 6 to 8 or 9. You have over 70 pages for kids to learn with for the fall.
Sequencing: Playing in the Leaves is great practice for identifying the order of events. It is a great fall printable for kindergarten.
Fall Leaves Matching ABC Cut & Paste has all 26 letters of the alphabet for kids to work on matching uppercase and lowercase. The fall leaves alphabet cut and paste is a great no-prep worksheet.
Leaf Counting Mats has 4 mats with different counting options for kids to learn with. You have count leaves on the tree, fill the ten frames and matching the ten frames and the tree. The Leaf Counting Mats is a great fall printable for kids in PreK and kindergarten.
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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