We are always looking for new ideas for our sensory bins to keep students engaged. Changing up activities keeps the interest as new activities easily change the dynamic in a classroom by calming children down as they explore the new activities.
- alphabet & numbers
- alphabet cereal
- animals
- aquarium gravel
- beads
- beans
- birdseed (nut allergy issue)
- bottle caps
- bugs
- buttons
- cereal
- chickpeas
- cloud dough
- corks
- colored pasta
- colored sand
- construction paper scraps
- corn
- decaf coffee grinds
- dinosaurs
- dried beans
- drinking straws and scissors
- Easter grass
- funfetti
- gems
- gak
- ice blocks
- Jello crystals
- kinetic sand (homemade or store bought)
- leaves
- Lego blocks
- magnetic objects and magnets
- marbles
- moon sand
- mud
- nuts and bolts
- oatmeal (use gluten free version if allergies are an issue)
- pine cones (tree allergy issue)
- pine needles (tree allergy issue)
- plumbers pipes, elbows and joints
- pom poms
- pebbles
- raisins
- ramps
- rice
- sand
- saw dust
- shaving cream (potential scent allergy issue)
- shells
- shredded paper (look for sight words, letter hunt)
- snow with shovels
- snow with paint
- soil
- straw (potential allergy issue)
- stones
- tissue paper
- vehicles
- water
- water with soap to make bubbles
- water beads (dollar store)
- wooden chips/mulch
- wooden pallets
