This sensory bin includes: • 4 cups old fashioned oats • 2 silicone pie liners (colors vary depending on what I have in stock at the time you order… you do not get to pick) • 2 tan felt pie crusts (these are handmade and may look slightly different than the ones pictured) • 1 metal tablespoon • 16 task cards (laminated) • 7 red pom poms • 7 green pom poms • 7 yellow pom poms • 2 cinnamon sticks * this does NOT include the bin... you can purchase cheap bins from the store to fit your preference. The bins I use are from the IKEA Flisat table! Differentiation: • Easier: This sensory bin can be for the really early toddler who doesn’t know his/her numbers yet. Let them explore and play on their own by making mini apple pies & apple crisps without the direction of the task cards! Once your child gets older, introduce the task cards for number exposure, number recognition, counting and one-to-one correspondence. But until then, let your child’s imagination run free! • Harder: The task cards provide an educational way for the child to work on their number skills while learning in a fun, engaging, imaginative way! Guide them through how to use the cards until they’re able to independently complete them. This bin includes small items that are choking hazards and not recommended under 3 unless adult supervision is present. This bin also includes food (uncooked oats) so although the food is technically edible, parental supervision should be present if your child puts things to his/her mouth and definitely not recommended for consumption.
{{widget type=
Try this easy homemade colored cloud dough recipe with an ocean theme. We love simple and fun sensory play recipes for kids!
Here are 100 amazing Sensory Bins for toddlers & preschoolers. Learn and play with all these ideas from rice to pom poms to caps & more!
Anya, the founder of Montessori From The Heart, is an educational coach, a blogger, an author, a digital creator, and an influencer.
This visual directory of non-food sensory bin ideas for preschoolers will help teachers plan the bin filler, accessories, and learning objectives.
Use these simple materials to make a cute woodland sensory bin for little hands to explore. Affiliate links included. We are transitioning from our arctic and winter themes and into more woodland based themes during
This sensory bin includes: • 4 cups cocoa puff cereal • mini marshmallows • two 10 oz white paper cups • 4” wooden scooper • 12 task cards (laminated) • 1 mini metal whisk * this does NOT include the bin... you can purchase cheap bins from the store to fit your preference. The bins I use are from the IKEA Flisat table! Differentiation: • Easier: This sensory bin can be for the really early toddler who doesn’t know his/her numbers yet. Let them explore and play on their own by making cups of hot cocoa without the direction of the task cards! Once your child gets older, introduce the task cards for number exposure, number recognition, counting and one-to-one correspondence. • Harder: The task cards provide a way for the child to work on their number skills while learning in a fun, engaging, imaginative kind of way! Guide them through how to use the cards until they’re able to independently complete them. This bin includes small items that are choking hazards and not recommended under 3 unless there's adult supervision present. This bin also includes food (cocoa puffs and mini marshmallows) so although the food is edible, parental supervision should be present if your child puts things to his/her mouth.
Make that rock collection your kids have into a fun sensory experience this summer! Create ice rocks in this simple toddler and preschooler sensory activity.
Set up a simple washing farm animal sensory bin for your preschoolers. They'll love getting the dirty animals clean! So simple, but so fun!
Are you looking for a fun ocean themed sensory bin for your toddlers and preschoolers? Check out this Under The Sea Jello Sensory Bin! Using just a few basic supplies you probably already have at home, you make make the best messy sensory play bin for kids. Let your kids squish and splat the gooey jello all while they secretly work on fine motor skills! Jello sensory play for the win!
Looking for great sensory bin ideas? What should you put in your sensory bins? These sensory bin fillers are all great ideas! Give them each a try for....
Check out this awesome recycled sensory bin. What a great quick and easy toddler activity! Toddlers will love this fun sensory bin activity!
This Toddler and Preschool Bugs Sensory Bin is also a great Spring sensory bin for kids to explore insects. My kids learned about ladybugs and butterflies.
Taste Safe Kinetic Sand recipe for sensory play! Easy to make, just 4 ingredients! Baby sensory play idea
Bug Spring Sensory Bin is a easy sensory bin activity for kids! Create a beautiful sensory bin with pretend grass and dirt!
Get your toddler or preschooler ready to have lots of fun exploring this adorable Ocean Sensory Bin! Ocean activities are great for summer themes and
Follow our directions to make colorful dyed pasta that’s perfect for your kids to play with in sensory bins or to use for crafts and...
All the images found below are from our Instagram @habitatschoolhouse . The resources featured can be found in our shop and our membership. If you see a resource you like, just click on the image and it will take you to where you can download the resources.
I have gathered up 55 sensory table ideas for your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom. There are ones for most themes, holidays, and seasons.
Soapy sea foam sensory bin for kids. A fun and easy sensory activity for toddlers and preschoolers to try this summer.
The girls are really loving our sensory bins these days. By changing them out weekly, it keeps their attention piqued and they are constantly finding new ways to play with them! For me, entertained…
What a great quick and easy toddler activity! Make a puzzle hunt sensory bin for a perfect indoor toddler activity! An easy toddler sensory bin.
Here are 100 amazing Sensory Bins for toddlers & preschoolers. Learn and play with all these ideas from rice to pom poms to caps & more!
Sensory play is wonderful for children. It helps them develop many skills and learn so much. Having a sensory table will change your playtime. Check out why!
🦄Come and enjoy this magic unicorn bin! Lots of tiny cute accessories for your child to dig and explore! 🦄While working in a daycares and during the years that I was staying at home with my own kids I have tried lots of activities for little ones. From my experience one of the most favorite and beneficial for kids are sensory bins. I enjoy to create these bins not less than children to play with them:)). 🦄Sensory play promotes fine motor skills, imaginative play, problem solving, self- control, life skills and much more. 🌈Bin includes: Filler: - 3 cups of Unicorn 🦄 mix ( mix of rice and chickpeas as shown) Tools: - Wooden tweezers - Wooden scoop - Wooden spoon - Wooden bowl Accessories: - 2 unicorns🦄 ( will be replaced with 1 unicorn slinky, and 1 glass unicorn 🦄. Please see the last picture.) - Pompons - 8 tiny unicorns 🦄 - 4 crowns - 4 tiny clouds - 5 tiny clouds with rainbow - 2 rainbows 🌈 - 2 tiny rainbows🌈 - 1 wooden rainbow - 1 magic wand - 3 stars *Bin is not included *Choking hazards! Supervision required! *Recommended age 3 years and up. *You can find me on Instagram: @happy_childhoodgoods Please visit our etsy shop to see all our products: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HappyChildhoodGoods/edit?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
A fun Halloween Sensory Bin with spaghetti that your kids will love! Make this for your Halloween party for a spooky and squishy sensory experience!
After a long winter, as soon as my kids finally hear that it is "SPRING!", they have visions of flowers and gardening and sunny bike rides. Welp, not quite yet, guys. If your weather is anything like…
This taste-safe Jell-O toy rescue activity requires under 5 minutes of prep time and is perfect for babies, toddlers and preschoolers!
Budget sensory bins for toddlers! Dollar store sensory bins just as fun! 10 Dollar Tree sensory bins using dollar store sensory items.
The reason I love sensory bins so much is because it’s easy and inexpensive to put them together, and they usually are a bit hit! As I am writing this now, my youngest son is playing with one…
Make a super Easy Vegetable & Flower Garden Sensory Bin today! Preschoolers will love this fun Spring time sensory play activity!
This lemonade sensory bin is such a fun summer activity. Kids will have a blast scooping, exploring, and using their imagination.
This coffee sensory bin is so much fun. It smells great and kids will have a blast using this sensory bin for imaginative play.
Create a farm sensory bin with a corn silo that really loads a tractor! Fall (and spring) are such fun times to learn about farms. We have had fun this week doing a simple farm unit with Jonathan (2.5) and Owen (5). This plastic tub has been recycled into all sorts of play scenes. For […]
Anya, the founder of Montessori From The Heart, is an educational coach, a blogger, an author, a digital creator, and an influencer.
Laura @inspiremyplay Founder of @inspiremyplay, Early Years teacher for 11 years and mummy to three gorgeous girls. I'm passionate about about the benefits of play in early childhood. This post may contain affiliate links. This means that if you click on a link and go on to make a purchase, I may receive a small commission (at no additional cost to you). Please read my disclosure policy for more details. I often get asked for recommendations about what to buy to use with the PlayTRAY. The world of sensory and small world play can feel overwhelming! Where do I start? What are the must-have items? Do I really need to buy it all? There are definitely some basic items that are useful to have (scoops and bowls for example) but beyond that my advice is always start with your child's interests! What fascinates them? What will excite them and draw them into play? And yes, some of these items you might already have at home, or something that will work as an adequate substitute. So don't feel you need to buy everything, not all at once at least! By popular request I've put together a range of options for resources and supplies to go with the PlayTRAY based on different interests and themes. If you are giving the PlayTRAY as a gift, these ideas are a great way of filling the PlayTRAY to make something truly special to open! Many of these setups are a hybrid of bought resources and natural items. Where possible I've included links to resources to make it easier for you to source things to go with the PlayTRAY but please be aware that Amazon don't always direct you to the exact product I've selected, so do just check prices against other listings if they seem unusually high! As always do be aware of the age-appropriateness of the resources you choose. For example I wouldn't use the glass stones featured in some of these set ups until you are sure that your child won't put them in their mouth. To find out more about our award winning PlayTRAY visit our product page or click the links below. Sensory Play Starter Kit When it comes to sensory play there are definitely some tools that are invaluable! The set of resources pictured here will allow you to set up a range of activities. Bowls and scoops are a must for filling and pouring with dry materials like rainbow rice, oats and sand. These activities are the foundation of sensory play and I can guarantee you will get a huge amount of use out of them! The handy tools set by Learning Resources is another great investment for use with the PlayTRAY. Each tool is designed to work on developing children's fine motor skills and hand strength. We find these great to use with water play and for use with pom-poms and waterbeads. Another tool that is very useful is a set of liquid droppers. You can find them all via our Amazon store button below. Buy Sensory Play Tools & Equipment (Amazon US) Buy Sensory Play Tools & Equipment (Amazon UK) To complement these tools I've chosen a couple of popular sensory play materials- rainbow rice and play dough. You can find out how to colour rice here and how to make our super-simple no cook play dough recipe here. Another great starter option would be to buy a pack of waterbeads! Construction Tray Construction play is so much fun and a brilliant way to gift the PlayTRAY to any vehicle enthusiast! An option for a quick and easy base is to buy some play sand or kinetic sand. If you have a bit more time why not try making our sand play dough or use pantry items such as black beans, dried chickpeas and pasta, which are great for transporting with little vehicles. You can even use cereal, which is a great option for our youngest PlayTRAYers who are still mouthing! When it comes to vehicles there are two sets that I recommend. Le Van Toys make a gorgeous wooden set of vehicles that we love but we tend to save these for less messy set ups. If you are looking for versatility & value for money, CAT make a plastic set of vehicles that can be used for wet sensory play, like oobleck, and easily be cleaned afterwards. Both can be bought via the button link below. Buy Construction Play Resources (Amazon US) Buy Construction Play Resources (Amazon UK) Dinosaur PlayTRAY We used kinetic sand for the base of this dinosaur tray but this one could also be set up with play dough or pantry items. If you're looking for greenery for small world play, a good place to start is a pet shop. Plastic plants for a fish tank or reptile terrariums work really well as vegetation! These wooden slices and green boulders are something we use for a lot of different play scenarios. In fact, all of these items you will find useful to reuse! Buy Dinosaur Play Resources (Amazon US) Buy Dinosaur Play Resources (Amazon UK) Ocean Tray This is one of our favourite themes! Water play is a great place to start with the PlayTRAY and these resources will enable them to build their own watery worlds! Although we collect a lot of shells at the beach ourselves I do recommend the pack of shells from Amazon to give you a great selection of different types. We do love our Schleich animals but I also find this pack of assorted sea creatures invaluable! Because these are comparatively cheap I don't mind using them in all sorts of messy play scenarios like setting them in jelly or popping them in the freezer for some ice play! Buy Ocean Play Resources (Amazon US) Buy Ocean Play Resources (Amazon UK) Frozen themed PlayTRAY This one is such a hit in our house! We've also made this Frozen play dough kit as a gift for a few friends and it always seems to go down well. I painted Elsa and Anna peg dolls for this, but if you prefer you could buy little frozen characters (there are lots of options on Amazon). Check out our Frozen play dough kit blog post for full details on how to put this together. Buy Frozen Play Resources (Amazon US) Buy Frozen Play Resources (Amazon UK) Birthday Cake Sensory Play This is the perfect way to gift the PlayTRAY for a birthday and is one of my kids' all time favourite sensory play set-ups. This uses cloud dough for the base, which is a mixture of flour and oil. It's powdery, yet mouldable so it works well with cookie cutters and to make pretend cakes- you can poke in the candles and they will stand up! I added a little bit of vanilla essence to this to give it a gorgeous cakey smell. Adding candles is a must for this and if you can find some number ones too then it is a great opportunity to work on counting and number recognition. You can find the instructions below to make cloud dough. If you'd like a slightly cleaner option than you could substitute the cloud dough for playdough, but still add the vanilla essence- it's a must! Buy Birthday Play Resources (Amazon US) Buy Birthday Play Resources (Amazon UK) Space Tray These space figures from Safari are the perfect size for small world play! Use them with a base of black beans or make some moon cloud dough. Again, these can be substituted for black or grey play dough. I actually made these planets using air-dry clay but below I've suggested a set of planets that you can buy instead. Buy Space Play Resources (Amazon US) Buy Space Play Resources (Amazon UK) Arty Crafty PlayTRAY Okay, so this isn't small world or sensory play as such but the PlayTRAY compartments are a brilliant size for holding craft items so I had to include it! This is also a really inexpensive way to fill the PlayTRAY. Take a trip to a supermarket or craft store to stock up on crafty items. Alternatively, you can find some of our favourite craft supplies linked below. Buy Art & Craft Resources (Amazon US) Buy Art & Craft Resources (Amazon UK) I hope that's given you plenty of inspiration for resources to use with PlayTRAY and how you can gift it in an exciting and original way! Do pin this article to refer to later and for more PlayTRAY ideas do follow us on Instagram at @inspiremyplay. You can also find a selection of our favourite play recipes and PlayTRAY set ups in our PlayTRAY ebook.
Taste-safe Ice cream sensory bin for kids. A fun sensory activity for an ice-cream or summer theme lesson plan. Ideal for babies and toddlers
Are you looking for some fun Forest activities to do with your littles? Check this beautiful Forest animals theme bin full of cute animals to explore 🐿️🍁🪵🐾🦔! ❗️Sensory play promotes fine motor skills, cognitive development, problem solving, imaginative play, self- control and much more❗️ Bin includes: 🧸Filler: - 3 cups of rice fall mix - Half cup of chickpea fall mix 🧸Tools: - Mini wooden scoop 🧸Accessories: - Wooden bowl - Some leaves 🍁 - 4 glass leaves - 4 pieces of wood 🪵 - Marbles - 5 forest animals ( may vary) - 1 snake - 1 frog - 3 acorns (sold out, will be replaced with wooden acorns) - 2 glass acorns - 3 lawn stones - 2 ladybugs - 2 tiny mushrooms 🍄 - 2 mushrooms on a stick - 1 random selected wooden tree🌳 (see the last picture) - 3 pine cones - 6 pieces of green plants - 4 wooden forest cutouts (vary) * Bin is not included Attention! Choking hazards! Supervision required! Recommended age 3 years and up. 🌺For free local pick up in Dundas please use the code: LOCALPICKUP 🌺You can follow me on instagram: @happy_childhoodgoods Please visit our etsy shop to see all our products: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/HappyChildhoodGoods/edit?ref=seller-platform-mcnav
Safe sensory materials for your sensory bin will set your kids up for successful play! Learn about why sensory bin beans are unsafe and alternative sensory bin fillers
If you are looking for fun and creative Fall sensory bins with your toddler or preschooler this Fall? Then this is the list for you!
