Flower Sensory Bin
Servings: 0
Ingredients
- Sensory bin
- Brown rice (for instructions on coloring rice here)
- A mix of beans (kidney beans, black beans, and lentils work well)
- Artificial flowers (easily found at dollar stores)
- Additional bins for sorting or plantingSpade or shovel (kid-sized)
Instructions
- Prepare Your Base: Start by filling your sensory bin with the colored brown rice on one side. This will act as your 'soil', giving a realistic base for your garden. find instruction to making colored rice here.
- Add Variety with Beans: Add a mix of kidney beans, black beans, and lentils throughout the rice or to the other side. These will add texture and contrast, mimicking the small stones and nutrients found in natural soil.
- Plant Your Garden: Push the stems of the artificial flowers into the rice so they stand upright, simulating a blooming garden. Scatter them around or create patterns; the design is up to you!
- Garden Tools Ready: Place a kid-sized spade or shovel along with extra flower pots nearby. These tools encourage kids to dig in the soil, transplant flowers, and even sort the beans and rice into the bins.
- Let the Gardening Begin! Introduce your child to the bin, and let their imagination take the lead. They can dig, plant, sort, and even pretend to water the flowers, engaging in hours of imaginative play