Simple St. Patrick's Day sensory bin activity for toddlers and preschoolers.
After a trip to the dollar store recently, I stocked up on some St. Patrick's Day goodies. Then I basically tossed them all together into this simple St. Patrick's Day sensory bin, which is great for a wide variety of ages, from babies and up!
This sensory activity features sparkly shamrocks, lucky coins, and so much green that you might think Kermit the Frog was hanging out in there. Sadly, no Kermit, but there's still tons of sensory fun to be had.
St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin: What You'll Need
I really love that this sensory bin uses non-food sensory bin fillers (see here and here for more non-food sensory bin ideas).
It's super simple to put together and uses items from the dollar store. Plus, each of the materials can easily be reused for other St. Patrick's Day activities.
Here's what was in this St. Patrick's Day themed sensory bin:
- Green flexible mesh tubing, cut into short strips
- Foam shamrocks - Some were even glittery!
- Fabric shamrocks - The ones we used were stickers found at Dollarama
Anyway, this sensory bin is green and festive!
Playing in a St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bin
This sensory bin provides a lot of different textures from the smooth foam to the puffy fabric shamrocks to the stretchy, albeit slight scratchy, tubing. And the green mess tubing makes me think of big fat spaghetti noodles or long worms or something. Needless to say, four year old K could hardly resist digging in.
The mesh tubing is so much fun to play with. K managed to sneak in some fine motor practice by sliding one end of the tubing into the other to create a loop. You could also supply some scissors alongside this sensory bin to encourage some scissor skills practice.
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