Thanksgiving Sensory Bin – The Very First Thanksgiving Day

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.

Thanksgiving Sensory Bin

This Thanksgiving sensory bin has a bean filler with figures of native and Jamestown settlers. A fun way to explore different and match with parts of the story in the book we read.

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Thanksgiving Book to Read With this Sensory Bin

We read the book The Very First Thanksgiving Day. Then we talked about the different pieces from the sensory bin.

Please note I use the same words that are in the book for the learning example. It used Indian and not Native American.

What we used to make the Thanksgiving Sensory Bin

• mixture of beans
• The Very First Thanksgiving Day
• Safari LTD Jamestown Settlers Toob
• Powhatan Indians Toob

How we Used the Thanksgiving Sensory Bin

They got to look at the items in the bin.

We named all the items in the bin.

They gathered the Indians and Pilgrims at the center.

They played for a little bit with the items in the bin.

They made it rain beans on the Indians and Pilgrims.

Then we read the book and used the figure on the various pages on the book.

Check out all the fun Thanksgiving Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com