With Easter coming up, I was so excited to create an Easter sensory bin for my kids to use and explore. As I explain in my post Sensory Play: What It’s All About?, there is so much that children can learn from sensory bins and other forms of sensory play. In this post I’m sharing how I created my Easter sensory bin. I’m also detailing the various ways that my kids used the bin, with commentary about the skills they were developing along the way.
Note: This and other Easter activities can be found on my Easter activities for kids and Easter printables pages.
I created our Easter sensory bin from the following items:
- A base of green and white rice (left over from our Christmas sensory bin)
- Two small pails
- A handful of fabric Easter eggs
- Some plastic Easter eggs
- Mini Easter egg beads (inside the plastic Easter eggs)
aluminum scoops
scissor scoops
aluminum scoops
I love this idea! I always have a hard time with ideas for my sensory bin. This is perfect for Easter!
This was one of the simpler sensory bins I’ve done, but there was so much learning involved for the kids. Sensory bins definitely don’t have to be complicated to provide a wonderful learning experience.
I love this! Thanks for the great ideas!
I use and create sensory bins all the time for my clients (I’m a speech therapist) but I LOVE LOVE this one. Putting it a clear container only adds to the excitement and anticipation. I can’t wait to try this one with some of my clients (as long as they don’t try to eat the rice…may try dried pasta instead!).
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for your comment. And you are right that a sensory bin with rice would not be appropriate for all kids, especially those who still put things in their mouths. Fortunately my kids are past that stage. 🙂 But there’s so much fun to be had with all the Easter eggs. Hope your clients enjoy!
Oh what fun! I love sensory bins too and I really need to get on the ball and do more for my girls they really love them and they are great for keeping them entertained too! Thanks so much for sharing on We Made That!
Another cute idea. Thanks so much for sharing.
Cynthia
I was just thinking about making a sensory bin for my 2-year-old this week. I’ll be sure to include some of your ideas. Thanks for sharing!
What a great sensory bin; so many play options! Thanks for sharing at Mom’s Library!
Just want to let you know I will be featuring this on Mom’s Library this week! I hope you stop by!
I love the sensory bin. I especially love the picture of the kiddos inside the bin. It is a great tactile experience, I have to admit that when setting things up, I never can resist the urge to run my fingers through the rice, pasta, lentils, or whatever filler I have decided to use!
I love your Easter table and Easter sensory bin! Lots of fun things to play with. 🙂
That colored rice is awesome! Their feet look like they having such fun in there. Pinned!
What a great project. I was ignorant about sensory projects until my children had outgrown them. I hope you’ll consider sharing this post at my Look What We Did link up.
Looks like they had so much fun! I love the rice and the way they used different utensils to pick things up. Great for motor skills! Thanks for sharing your Easter Sensory bin at Mom’s Library!
Just the last few weeks I’ve been struggling with the idea of sensory bins. I didn’t really understand the educational aspect and was very distracted by how messy they can be! Thank you for sharing all the different ways your kids learned through this activity! Maybe I’ll try another bin 🙂
Glad I could be of help! And I hope your kid(s) enjoy them as much as mine do!
Thanks for linking up to The Weekly Kids Co-Op. I have selected your post as one of the features for tomorrow’s Kid’s Co-Op post over on Triple T Mum and I have pinned this to The Weekly Kid’s Co-Op Pinterest Board. Looking forward to seeing your next linked up post 🙂
So much fun! The rice is beautiful. He climbed in the box:) I love the big tongs!
Oh, how fun!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!
The colored rice looks like fun! Thanks for sharing with us at Eco-Kids Tuesday!