01/24/2025
Winter sensory box for the win! Filled with soft squares of cotton batting “snow” and a variety of snowy/icy items, kids from 2-6 years are frozen in one place for at least 15 minutes! ❄️ ❄️❄️
Throw in artic cards (I use seasonal ones because I’m a little extra) and you can hit an extremely wide range of goals.
❄️ artic/phonological processing
❄️ phonemic awareness: id the first/last sound of each object or give a rhyming word
❄️ spatial concepts: pull things out and arrange them in front of/next to/behind the bin
❄️ descriptive concepts: color words, size comparisons, shapes, sparkly/squishy/hard/soft
Where do you land with sensory bins? Love or loathe them? I find this one a little easier because the “snow” isn’t as messy as beans or other tiny objects. Plus it’s much lighter—key for me who works out of a rolling bag.