Looking for taste safe sensory bins for your baby or toddler? You can come to the right place!

Learning starts when all the senses are engaged. Here is a list of the best taste safe sensory bins you can do with your little baby or toddler from 12 months, 15 months, 18 months and up.

Finding baby sensory bins that are appropriate for your 12 month old can be challenging. And finding ideas for even younger babies can be even more challenging. It is perhaps the number one question I get from parents – “Do you have any sensory bin ideas for babies as young as 9 months?”.

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Although, these ideas are best done with babies 12 months and older they can be adapted for younger babies. I did them with my twins when they were as young as 10 months. However, I kept a very very very close eye on them but they absolutely loved them!

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Here is a round up of amazing taste safe Sensory Bins that you can do with your baby aged 12 months, 15 months, 18 months and up.

Taste Safe Recipes

• Taste Safe Sensory Bin Happy Toddler Playtime

• Taste Safe Slime – Mother Could

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👅TASTE SAFE SLIME🦠 One of my favorite taste safe recipes! I’m not calling it edible because I don’t want you to serve it for dinner buuuut technically you can eat it😝. It’s just chia seeds, water, food coloring and corn starch 🤪. This recipe makes a generous amount of slime so one can certainly be for siblings to share. The consistency is not exactly like traditional slime. It’s more like a mix between goop/oobleck and slime. It’s grainy because of the chia seeds and ohhh so fun to play with 🤗. • ❣️Have you seen all of the fun things happening on @tagfromtheheart with the Tase Safe theme? So many great ideas have been shared already! Make sure to tag me and Anya @montessorifromtheheart in your taste safe play ideas this week ❤️ #tagfromtheheart. • 👉🏼YOU’LL NEED: -1/4 cup chia seeds -1 3/4 cup water -Food coloring -3-4 cups corn starch 👉🏼INSTRUCTIONS: 1️⃣Mix the chia seeds, water and food coloring together. 2️⃣Cover and refrigerate overnight. 3️⃣Uncover and add the corn starch a little at a time. About a cup at a time. Mix and then continue until you achieve the desired consistency. Should be like regular slime. Slimy but can be easily taken off the hands. 4️⃣Store covered in the refrigerator. You will need to add a little water each time you take it out to use it. It will reactive the slime. • ❣️I’d love to know your thoughts on slime! 👍🏼or😝? #mothercould #howto . . . #montessori #preschool #sensoryplay #kidsactivities #earlylearning #satisfying #learningthroughplay #invitationtoplay #preschooler #slime #toddlerfun #sahmlife #toddlerlife #homeschool #slimetutorial #playathome #montessoriathome #toddler #letthemplay #babyplay #childhoodunplugged #playideas #diy #kindergarten #playbasedlearning #busytoddler #toddleractivities

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• Rainbow Jello Sensory Play by Craftulate
• Taste Safe Finger Paints by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Taste Safe Mini Water Beads – The Train Driver’s Wife
• 5-Minutes Taste-Safe Foam – Baby Play Hacks
• One Ingredient Moon Sand Recipe – Twin Mom Refreshed
• Applesauce Oobleck Recipe – Little Bins for Little Hands
• Taste Safe Paint – Mother Could

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🎨TASTE SAFE PAINT🎨 You know I love myself some taste safe recipes 😜. Cutest clip of Emma at the end 😍. Let me give you a little background➡️. When Nicky was a baby she didn’t like to eat so making taste safe paint was easy. I mixed yogurt with food coloring and that was it. She didn’t eat so she painted well. Fast forward to Emma 👶🏻 (16M) who loves food and I make the same mixture except sh eats it all😅. • ❣️The idea with taste safe paint (in my eyes) is to have them explore the texture, get early exposure to holding a paint brush and connect the paint to the paper. You want to deter them from eating it even though it’s ok🙃. So I treat it like real paint but if it makes it into her mouth, which it does, I say things like “yuk, not in your mouth” and “don’t put it in your mouth”. ∙∙∙ 👉🏼INGREDIENTS: -1/4 cup salt -1/2 cup flour -1/2 cup water -Food coloring 👉🏼INSTRUCTIONS: 1️⃣Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. 2️⃣Add a few drops of food coloring to the water. Pour into the flour and salt mixture. 3️⃣Whip well until and the clumps dissolve. 💡You can add more or less water depending on the consistency you desire. 💡💡Store in the refrigerator. Can keep for 6 months or so. #mothercould #howto . . . #montessori #earlylearning #teachermom #toddler #learningthroughplay #messyplay #invitationtoplay #diymom #kidsactivities #diy #preschool #preschoolready #toddlerfun #sahm #homeschoolpreschool #homeschool #infancia #everydayplayhacks #playathome #montessoriathome #letthekids #letthembelittle #letthemplay #preschoolplay #paint #babylife #babyplay #sensoryplay

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• Baby Safe Cloud Dough by Lemon Lime Adventures
• Edible Jello Worm Sensory Bin by Adventures and Play
• Edible Dirt Sensory Bin Love Play and Learn
• DIY Taste Safe Slime – Mama Instincts
• Edible Cupcake Play Dough Recipe by B-Inspired Mama
• Taste Safe Mud – Play Inspired Mum
• Edible Shark Fluffy Slime – The Chaos and the Clutter

Taste Safe Sensory Bins

• Under the Sea Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Cereal Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Frozen Vegetable Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Rock Soup Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Oats & Easter Eggs Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Spring Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Super Easy Sensory Play: Rice Play by Fun At Home With Kids
• Yellow Rubber Ducky Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Exploring Montessori Sensory Play with Babies by Natural Beach Living
• Feed the Ducks Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime for Toots Mom is Tired

• Pebble and Water Sensory Tub for Babies by Little Lifelong Learners
• Mushy Green Pea Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Super Easy Sensory Play: Oatmeal Textures Sensory Bin by Fun At Home With Kids
• Corn Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Simple Christmas Sensory Bin for Babies by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Baby Valentines Sensory Bin by Happy Toddler Playtime

• Snow Kitchen Sensory Bin – Happy Toddler Playtime

• Vegetable Soup Bath Happy Toddler Playtime

Skill Development Opportunities

Sensory bins are great for Colour Recognition, Language and Vocabulary Development, Hand-Eye Coordination, Fine Motor Skills, Problem Solving, Emotional Development, Trial & Error, Visual Perception, Cognitive Development, Imaginative and Sensory Play.

Age Suitability

This activity is ideal for 12 month old baby toddlers and up but can be adapted for younger babies.

REMEMBER ADULT SUPERVISION IS REQUIRED AT ALL TIMES WHILE DOING ACTIVITIES BUT ESPECIALLY WITH BABY TODDLERS.

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