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May.22.2013 · 4 Comments

Sensory Fun: Dinosaur Sensory Bin

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As my readers know, each month, I do a different educational theme in my children’s homeschool classroom. This month, it’s dinosaurs! I’ve been doing fun, themed sensory bins each month. I shopped at Target this time for dinosaur sensory fun, and they had so many awesome items. Here’s what I found.

These dinosaurs were in the dollar area. We picked two of them for our sensory bin.

dollar dinosaurs

I found this gravel in the floral arrangement section.

gravel

I had some other small dinosaurs at home along with shovels to “dig” for the dinosaurs. Target also sold these other dinosaur items: a sandwich cutter (that we used as a cookie cutter) and a cute dinosaur book. Both were the dollar area.

dinosaur cutter

dinosaur book

To assemble a dinosaur sensory bin, get a bin large enough for one child to sit on each side (but not so large that it’s difficult for them to reach inside). I poured the small stones inside and added all different types of dinosaurs. We had dinosaur skeletons, large dinosaurs, and small squishy dinosaurs, along with a small metal bucket, a shovel, and a mini-rake. You can also include a few large stones to use as “dino eggs”.

Dinosaur Sensory Bin

The kids love playing with their dinosaur sensory bin together.

sensory play

And sometimes they play independently.

bryce sensory play

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  1. Tiffany Thomsen says

    June.30.2013 at 9:53 pm

    I was telling some of my friends about your terrific “diet” ideas! You are so creative!

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    • Carrie Wells, Ed.D. says

      July.5.2013 at 7:24 pm

      Thanks, Tiffany! These bins are so much fun to put together and the kids love them 🙂

      Reply

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