What do you do with all the flowers that your kids can't stop plucking? Well, you can create a sensory bin with them that your little ones will love exploring and it will also help your child build connections in a meaningful way.
Sensory play plus water fun are two of my most favourite activities to do with my daughter. Sensory play is really important in a child's development. It helps them explore new senses and experience new things.
Also, another fun sensory activity plus a science experiment for kids is this baking soda science bin. It's super easy to set up and also introduces your little ones to science. Also, the best part is that it can keep kids engaged for really long, sometimes for up to four hours.
Coming back to this easy to put spring sensory bin. Exploring flowers and doing activities with them is one of the best ways to get kids to learn about the spring season. Also, you can put some really good use to all the flowers that your kids will keep bringing inside the home as the weather starts to get warmer.
So let's gets started!
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Flower soup – An easy spring sensory bin!
To set up this activity all you need are a few basic activity tools. Also, these tools are great to buy as they come in really handy for many other activities that you can do with your little ones.
- 28 qt storage bin from Walmart
- Blue food color
- Bowl
- Tools to play (spoons, spatulas, stariners etc – anything that can be used to pick flowers from the water)
- Flowers
- Dish soap (optional)
Related. Wondering how to introduce sensory bins to your toddler? Find helpful tips and tricks here on how to introduce sensory bins to toddlers.
Also I have shared 21 minimal setup and fun sensory bin ideas for your toddlers in this post. And if you are looking for more ideas on the sensory bins, then do check out this book. It's packed with some fun ideas for sensory play for toddlers and preschooler
How to set it up
Setting up this flower soup sensory bin is really easy.
Add water to the storage bin. I have also added blue color to the water to create a blue water sensory experience.
You can also add dish soap or foam bubbles to create bubbles in the water for some additional sensory fun.
After that, I added the flowers that my daughter had picked from our backyard and a few stones to the bin. Make sure to wash the stones of all the dirt and mud on them.
Lastly keep a bowl next to the bin, to collect the flowers and give your kids strainers, spoons, spatulas (anything that can help them collect the flowers).
Isn't it just the easiest sensory bin to set up?
How to play with the flower sensory bin
Now it's time for the fun part to introduce the flower soup bin to your kids.
I noticed that as soon as I had introduced the bin to my daughter, she immediately started to pick the flowers.
She particularly had a lot of fun picking the flowers with her spatula and watch the water drain as she picked it up which is also a great fine motor skill activity for kids.
After she had picked out all the flowers from the bin, she started to pluck the petals and put them back in the water.
By the time she was done playing with this activity (which was a solid ~1.5 hours), her clothes were pretty wet and had to be changed.
What does your little one learn from this flower sensory bin?
Flower soup is an easy bin that can introduce your kids to sensory play.
Also, all the plucking, scooping and picking tasks with the spoon is a great way to improve fine motor skills.
Also, the different colours of the petals helped my daughter explore the different colours.
And while she was playing with it I also spoke to her about the different sizes of the petals. Why some are big and some are small.
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What spring activities have you been doing with your kids lately?
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