3 ways to have fun with magnets - Gift of Curiosity. Recently the kids and I spent a day having fun with magnets.
Magnet sensory bin Our day started with a magnet sensory bin. (I LOVE sensory bins!) I used white rice as the base and then put in in some magnets from our Fun with Magnets kit . Both of the kids picked up a magnet and started exploring with it. They liked to see what objects would stick to the magnet. Using a magnet to remove a paperclip from a bottle After they had explored the contents of the sensory bin for a while, I showed the kids how they could use a magnet to get a paperclip out of a bottle. Painting with magnets Then I introduced them to magnet painting, an idea I originally saw on Rockabye Butterfly. I had the kids squirt globs of paint onto a paper plate. Then, they dropped a paperclip and a metal nut onto their plates. Then they used a magnet beneath the plate to move the paperclip and metal nut through the paint. The kids loved this activity, and asked to do it more than once. Non-Food Sensory Bin Bases - The Chaos and the Clutter. Crayon Box Chronicles.
This post contains affiliate links for convenience Can you find the Triceratops in the gooey-globby slime?
Remember the green slime from Nickelodeon as a kid? Well, this is a clear version that stretches, pulls, and twists for sticky, gooey sensory fun! Let’s grab our magnifying glasses, put on our Paleontologists hats, and play the dinosaur goo name game! PBS Kids has fun dinosaur field guide cards with pictures and facts. Materials Needed: What’s Next: Print out your free Dinosaur Field Guide Flash Cards. It’s GOO time!
Pour 1 cup clear glue in to bowl.Add in the miniature dinosaurs.Add 1 cup Sta Flo liquid starch to bowl.Mix thoroughly with your hands! If you want more, just double the recipe. Goo is great for sensory play and the name game helps build your child’s dino knowledge. Match each dinosaur to your flash cards and read the fun facts together! Investigate, ask questions, be silly, and explore gooey-slime sensory play together! Concept Sensory Bin. It’s concept learning time from Crayon Box Chronicles!
Today’s ultimate learning sensory bin is packed full of basic concepts, fine-motor activities, shapes, colors sequencing, and letters! Last week we explored Concept Sensory Painting, learning pre number concepts biggest :: smallest. Let’s dive back into our series today and discuss fun concepts — longest :: shortest, fill :: pour, full :: empty, and up :: down. Colored Hay Sensory Bin. I’m super excited to be participating in the 40 Days of Sensory Bin Fillers series from Sarah of Little Bins for Little Hands.
There’s been so many fun fillers shared already. We’re contributing hay, otherwise known as natural wood excelsior. Our colored hay sensory bin is full of bright, fun sensory play materials. My favorite part about hay is its ability to be easily manipulated and colored. Yesterday we shared how to dye hay and today we’ll sculpt, roll, and stretch it in our easy to set-up sensory bin. Materials: Hay (Natural Wood Excelsior)Coloring Hay RecipeColored Popsicle SticksColored Pipe CleanersBinGlue (optional) Spring Light Table Sensory Play. It’s time for our Light & Reflections Collaborative Series again and this month’s theme is “Spring!”
We love spring but in our neck of the woods spring usually means rain, and lots of it, so we have to find activities that bring spring to us in other ways. MB loved our gardening sensory bin for spring so to build on that I put together this spring light table sensory bin! It’s a great activity for fine motor skills and color sorting but above all it was fun! Post contains affiliate links for your convenience, please see below or disclosure for more info. Thank you!! An Invitation to Play – Compost Tray, Found Objects from Nature and Toys. If you saw our post on Pre-Writing Skills yesterday you may have seen Doodles using a tray full of compost/Peat Moss to practice his writing in.
I knew that he would be dying to get his hands on this tray when we had finished our writing activities so I had gathered lots of bits and pieces so that he could have lots of fun. I laid everything out on the table and encouraged him to create a small world with all of the materials. Oodles was anxious to be involved too so I had a smaller tray ready for her too. You may know by now that Doodles is construction obsessed, he loves to create scenes and buildings with a variety of materials so I had a pretty good feeling about giving him this invitation to play.
Materials used: TrayCompostpine conespebblestwigsleavescars and diggerswooden railway/road tracks from Ikeaplastic animalsdinosaurslots of loose pieces – bottle tops, wine corks, broken pieces of toys etc. What we did: I’ll let the photos show you. Raaaaaaawrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!. Sensory Bear Hunt. Last week at the library Eli picked out the board book edition of We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
The girls have heard the song before at the library, but we of course sang it again. I also thought it would be fun for them to go on their own bear hunt. The logistics of it, however, made it not exactly possible. So I made a bear hunt for their "hangers" (what the girls call their fingers). I should have taken pictures of all the boxes before the girls got a hold of them, but for some reason I didn't think of that. here are the descriptions though. So going by the book we first needed long, wavy grass. Next we needed a cold river, so ice water went into box number 2.
The third thing we needed was oozy mud. Next we needed a forest. For the snowstorm, I made Fluffy Stuff from Play Create Explore. Over 200 Sensory Bins For Tactile Fun.