Activity For Kids:

Weather sensory bin

Sensory bins are some of my kids' favorite ways to play and relax and it's so easy to setup. You can also add anything that you want to a sensory bin.

This activity is inspired by ideas from Weather sensory bin.

This activity is great to teach your kids:

Fine motor skills involve movement of the smaller muscle groups in your child's hands, fingers, and wrists.

Developing fine motor skills will help your child to write and prepares her for school. But it will also help your children with everyday tasks like eating, and dressing themselves.

Colour recognition activities helps children get to know the different colors and color blending and matching.

Sensory play is play that involves all the senses - taste, sound, sight, touch and smell. Sensory play is very beneficial to children. Research shows that sensory play builds nerve connections in the brain’s pathways, which lead to the child’s ability to complete more complex learning tasks. Sensory play is also very relaxing and rejuvenating to children.

Step 1

Color your Rice or beans if you want.

Add beans to ziploc bags and add blue food coloring and a squirt of hand sanitizer. Mix it together and let dry.

Step 2

Take your sensory bin and add your sensory play materials

Step 3

Invite your kids to play

... sun, cotton ball clouds, pipe cleaner lightning bolts, blue gem rocks for raindrops, foam snowflakes, and clear round gems for hail.
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