Sensory Bins are used regularly in our house. Not only do we have fun learning using them but 1 of the ways to get Ethan calmed down is tactile activities, sensory bin being one of them.
For Valentine Day we made a few different sensory bins for the boys to explore. We have made MANY different sensory bins for the boys, you can head over to our sensory bin page to check out all of them including some more Valentine day ideas ones. Some times we just reuse
Valentine Day Water Bead Sensory Bin
What’s Inside The Bin?
- Water Beads (We used red, pink, white, and clear)
- Water
- Silicone baking cups we used the red, white, and pink ones
- Heart shaped ice cube tray
- Sensory Bin to play in
Wonderful fine motor practice for kiddos. Picking up water beads, Gabe decided to put as many as he could into the red ice cube heart tray and filled the whole thing up!
Sorting out the bigger water beads is something that Ethan spent quite some time doing storing them in the heart containers was just a bonus!
We spent some time making letters out of the beads to, Gabe really enjoyed this. I think it would be a fun way to practice some of our concepts in All About Spelling!!
Red Flubber Valentine Day Sensory Bin
What’s inside the bin?
- Red Flubber (previous blog post for flubber recipe)
- Valentine’s Day bracelets
- Plastic x’s and o’s
- Heart shaped ice cube trays
- Plastic misc heart containers
- Red, White, and Red silicone baking liners
- Plastic play-dough pizza cutters
The flubber will last for about 3 weeks when we store it in mason jars. Even the big kids love playing with homemade flubber!!
Making hearts with the valentine’s ice cube tray.
Valentine Day Sensory Bin
What’s Inside The Bin?
Most of the items inside of this sensory bin were picked up over the last couple years from Target dollar section, the Dollar store, or from Oriental Trading Company.
- Heart Bracelets
- Red, White, and Pink silicone baking cups
- Red and Pink necklaces
- Valentine’s Day erasers a few different ideas
- Purple plastic hearts
- Heart and red star ornaments
- X’s and O’s
- Misc Heart Shaped containers and ice cube trays
Ethan needs some extra help with some fine motor skills, despite all of the extra work we have done to improve them so picking up each of the plastic hearts and putting each of them into the heart ice cube tray is great work for him!
Looking for more Valentine’s Day ideas? I have a Valentine’s Day page that has lots of great Valentine’s Day arts, crafts, tot trays, and more.
My Valentine’s Day Pinterest board has even more ideas!
Follow Mama Of Many Blessings’s board Valentines Day Ideas For Moms And Kids on Pinterest.
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I like sensory bins and the water one looks like the most fun! Having them themed with the holiday is so much fun for the kids and me!
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Very cool! Thanks for sharing, I can’t wait to try sme of these with my 20 month old!
Thank you! I’ll bet your little one will love them. Water bins used to keep my little ones busy for a long time, and of course require a change of clothes lol. Have a blessed week!!