SPRING SENSORY TABLES
- katiedailey55
- Apr 14, 2023
- 2 min read
Spring can mean many things… bugs, flowers, rain showers— endless possibilities for sensory play!
These are just some simple things that you can add to your sensory table to engage and invite creative play! I’ve also done a lot of “hiding and finding” in the sensory tables with sight word cards, letters and sounds, math problems, etc. for my big boys! Check these ideas out!
‼️As always... these ideas are best practiced with children who are not still mouthing items! Some products can cause harm if ingested, so please be safe!
CRAWLY AND FLUTTERY BUGS TABLE
Ingredients for Fun:
Black pearl rice
Pretend bugs
Rocks, grass, sticks, flowers from outside
The black rice acts as dirt and the kiddos have a blast using scissors to chop a few flowers from the yard, along with collecting a few rocks and grass pieces! They hide the bugs, but also make them crawl over the natural elements. They'll play crawly bugs for a good long while!
Black Pearl Rice
Pretend Bugs
Bug catcher and magnifying glass
FLOWER GARDEN TABLE
Ingredients for Fun:
Black beans
Flower building manipulatives
Shovels/scoops
Watering can
This table seems so simple, and it is! Scooping black beans as "dirt" and planting the flowers over and over, my kiddos love to make different designs and all kinds of combinations. Then they pretend to "pick" the flowers and make a bundle bouquet. We also talked a lot about the different parts of a flower with these manipulatives! So much fun!
Flower Garden & Watering Can
Black Beans
Shovels and Scoopers
BEE HIVE TABLE
Ingredients for Fun:
Black beans
Mini bees
Wooden scoops and pots of honey
Decorative flower pot
Icecube tray (pretend honey combs)
We actually use this table throughout summer as well. It is not unusual for at least one of my children to have a fear of bees at any certain time. This sensory table actually helps out a lot with it! We usually read a few books about bees or watch a quick YouTube video and then they get to pretend everything that they learned. This helps remove the fear of the unknown regarding why bees sting and how they are super garden helpers!!
Mini Bees
Wooden Scoops and Pots
Flower Pot
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