Inside our Sensory bin:
Sticks, worms, flower petals, spiders, eggs, feathers, birds, and bird seed.
We decided to take our sensory bin outside on a beautiful spring day. We emptied it into our water play table and boy was it a lot of fun. Jada loved running her hands through the bird seed and allowing it to flow through her fingers. Now that is sensory overload!
Some action pics:
Collecting all the worms
I used the inspiration for my sensory bin from this book:
Jada has had a thing for birds since she learned to say her first words. She started by calling them "shoo-shoo" because her dad used to "shoo" them away from our cars. We have a bit of a bird problem on our street.
Anyway this book follows the development of the bird in the egg right through to the birds adult years. very educational but I have to catch Jada in the right mood to get all the way through it. We often just look at the pictures. The book is geared towards the 3 years and up crowd. However, we enjoy it:)
After we played for 1.5 hours in the bin making nests, making piles, sorting etc we came inside to rest and read our book yet again.
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6 comments:
Love it! I hope it's warmer soon so we can do a box like this one! :)
Wow - an hour and a half! she must have been *really* enjoying herself!!
xxxCate
What a fun sensory bin. I love the goggles the child is wearing in the last picture :)
Aw- "Shoo-Shoo"- that is so funny!
I think I could handle a sensory bin outdoors. I love that the bird will clean up the seed that spills out.
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I really like the idea of an outdoor sensory bin with bird seed. We have a bird feeder and love to watch the birds and this would just add to the fun.
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