St. Patrick's Day Color Mixing Sensory Bin

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St. Patrick's Day is the perfect time to teach little ones colors...especially green!  We have these fun bath colors and used them for a fun color mixing experiment.  We dropped a blue and a yellow on opposite sides of our bin.

 We watched them slowly move together and start mixing.

 Then we used a mixer and really made green.  My 5 year old loved this!

 Since we had a bucket of green water we added some fun fine motor tools, rainbow foam puzzle pieces, pennies, and some black paper cups for pots of gold.

 They had fun exploring and eventually decided to open a restaurant where they served "clover soup."  They came up with this on their own :)  I could order how many covers aka pennies I wanted in my soup.

 It was a fun, not to messy, learning activity.

Snow & Letter Sensory Bin

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I'm not sure why I've never done a sensory bin before but after reading about some of the benefits I decided to give it a try.  Here's our snow bin!

What's in the box:

cotton balls

stuffing (sewing)

foam letters (dollar store puzzle)

bells

ping pong ball

Fine motor tools

cups, rakes, shovels (from this set)

Let me tell you it was a big hit!  It was played with for an hour and they came back multiple times during the day to play some more. 

 I added some foam letters for them to find and then we used a tracking sheet to identify the ones we found.  (I used this printable from Letters of Literacy) and placed them in these dry erase pockets.

 Great letter recognition, writing practice, and I was right there to work on letter sounds as well. The whole box is great for fine motor skills as well-the yellow one was a favorite for this activity.

 You may have noticed ping pong ball mentioned in the list.  I had a plan to add several and write the letters on them instead of the foam puzzle pieces.  However when I went to grab them I only had one left.  So I tossed it in as a mystery snowball for them to find.

 I think my favorite moment was when this little guy pulled out a bell and announced he found a "jingle."

Watch for more sensory bin ideas!