I was so excited to continue on in our alphabet sensory bin series after the letter P one was such a huge success. So I asked my husband to pick a letter for the next bin. Letter S it was!
Just like the letter P bin, there are so many awesome objects that could be included that it was so hard to decide what to use. I was lazy, so I stuck to what I could easily find in my house even though I had dreams of including some sand, snow, sea shells, a stopwatch, and a scale of some sort. I guess that means I will be doing another S bin in the future.
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| K exploring the bin |
Materials
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| I spy with my little eye...a bin full of S objects! |
- A large plastic bin
- Various objects starting with the letter S:
- Slinky
- Stickers
- A large foam letter S
- A smaller plastic letter S
- Scissors
- Snow globe
- Scarf
- Snake stuffed animal
- Spray bottle
- Sponge
- Squeegee
- School bus
- String
- Saw from a plastic tool set
- Streamers
- Strawberry play food
- Sandwich play food
- Stamp set
The Invitation to Play
I set up the bin in the living room again and I had barely set it down before K came to rip off the lid. J wasn't far behind him.
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| Checking out the S sensory bin |
I always find it interesting to see what objects they reach for first. For J, it was the spray bottle and the large foam S. K reached for the play food sandwich.
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| J cleaning the letters |
J wanted to listen to music while we played with this sensory bin. His two favorite songs right now happen to start with the letter S (Taylor Swift's "Stay, Stay, Stay" and James Blunt's "Stay the Night"), so it worked perfectly with our letter S themed sensory play.
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| J cutting with scissors |
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| Slinky |
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| How do I make these work, mom? |
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| I can use this, mom?! |
And the best part was that both boys included some other S objects into their play: lots of smiles, plenty of singing, and some snot.
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| K squirted himself in the face with the spray bottle and look at that smile! |
What would you put in your S themed sensory bin? Tell me in the comments.
