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There are several different activities you can do with this sensory bin:
1. Pick up apples with tongs and sort them
First, you can pick up the apples with tongs and sort them by color in the two bins.
2. Create apple trees
The apple trees are also a fun activity. I made the trees by cutting out a tree shape from my green foam sheets. Then I cut slits on each side of my empty cardboard rolls and slide the tree down in the slits.
Next I used my circle Velcro pieces and attached 10 of the smooth sides on to each tree and 20 of the rough Velcro sides to all of my little apples. I used our red, green and yellow glitter poms for the apples.
The little apple poms can be taken off and put back on the trees as many times as your child’s heart desires. These trees also couple as a way to act out the “Ten Red Apples” book. I filled a tree with apples and as we read through the book she removed the apples from the tree when the book prompted her to.
3. Practice scooping beans
I included a small scoop in the sensory bin so she could practice scooping all of the beans as well. She loves filling the cardboard rolls with beans and then lifting them up and watching all the beans fall out.
I definitely got a huge smile of approval on our first sensory bin! I am so excited to use them this year in our home preschool!!
