Sensory Bins

Fillers
  • Cereal 

  • Bubbles
  • Colored Water (bath color tablets)
  • Kinetic Sand
  • Water Beads
  • Beans
  • Small Rocks
  • Dirt
  • Dry Pasta
  • Flour
  • Pom Poms
  • Tissue Paper
  • Styrofoam 
  • Snow
  • Silly String
  • Sticks/Grass
  • Sponges
  • Foam Shapes
  • Seashells
  • Ribbons
  • Fabric Scraps
  • Magic Noodles
  • Streamers
  • Containers and Lids
  • Shaving Cream (styrofoam, cardboard plastic wrap, newspaper)
  • Jello
  • Beads
  • Straws and Funnels 
  • Shredded Paper
  • Spaghetti (cooked or uncooked)
  • Yarn (farm animals, yarn (yellow, blue, brown tan, green, rocks) 
  • Picnic (cereal)
  • Birthday (shaving cream, cupcake tin, candles, sponges, sequins, ribbon)
  • Cloud Dough
  • Ice
  • Green Pasta
  • Paper Zoo 
  • Water and Foam Pieces 
  • Cotton Balls 
  • Contact Paper (sticky wall - flowers, steams leaves)
  • Polenta
  • Birdseed
  • Rice
  • Coffee Beans
Themes 

  • Construction (pasta, dirt and rocks, polenta)
  • Emergency Vehicles
  • Race Cars (cloud dough, car wash)
  • Monster Trucks (oats)
  • Trains
  • Boats
  • Robots
  • Dinosaurs (kinetic sand, marble rocks)
  • Space
  • Animals 
  • Reptiles
  • Dogs
  • Blocks (wooden, plastic, or foam)
  • Ice-cream
  • Tools
  • Horses
  • Farm (grass, rocks, sticks)
  • Tea Party (soap and bubble bath)
  • Alphabet (puzzle hunt)
  • Numbers 
  • Shapes
  • Family (Little People or Play mobile)
  • Musical Instruments
  • Magnets (cookie sheet) 
  • Fishing
  • Float or Sink
  • Flowers and Vases (vases and real or fake flowers), (play dough and pots to stick them in), (flower soup - flowers, strainer, bowls, spoons)
  • Pouring/Spooning
  • Prepare a Sandwich/Taco/Pizza
  • Contact Paper (construction paper shapes)
  • Beach (seashells, plastic sea creatures, shovels, buckets)
  • Soap and Water (plastic cups)
  • Ocean Exploration (blue jello with small ocean animals inside for kids to dig through to uncover)
  • World Map
  • Ducks (muddy duck wash)
  • Cupcake (flour cupcake factory)
  • Bugs (cloud dough) (jello bug rescue)
  • Dish Wash 
  • Cloud Tower Building 
  • Garden 
  • Colors (mixing colors)
  • Blocks (use colored ice to build towers)




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