Nothing says that Spring is here quite like baby birds arriving. Watching the ducklings waddling around is always an exciting time of year for our little family. That’s why this Birds Nest Sensory Bin is always a big hit when Spring comes around. As a bonus, as far as sensory bins go, this one is mess-free. Although this sensory bin is really easy to set up, it has a whole range of different learning activities hiding in all of those colors.
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Sensory Play
What is Sensory Play? Why is it so important? There are a lot of benefits of sensory play, babies, toddlers, and preschool-aged children all learn different things from sensory activities.
One of the greatest benefits of sensory play is that it helps your childs brain to build connections in a meaningful way. We process and understand the world around us through our senses. The more we engage the senses, the more our kids understand what they are experiencing.
For more ideas, check out 17 Easy Spring Sensory Activities for Kids.
Birds Nest Sensory Bin
Materials Needed
- Colored craft paper
- scissors
- plastic easter eggs
- fluffy craft chicks
- a large tub
How to Make a Birds Nest Sensory Bin
Step 1: Cut the colored paper into thin strips.
If you have a shredder handy, then use it. However, I found that cutting the paper with scissors was incredibly easy and took less than 5 minutes.
2: Scrunch the paper strips up in your hands, and then spread them over the bottom of your container.
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3: Place some of the baby chicks into the Easter eggs, and close the eggs. Place these and some empty eggs and “hatched” chicks on top of the paper.
Helping the baby birds to hatch out of the plastic Easter Eggs ended up being a great fine motor activity. My son loved holding the eggs up and making them pop open. My baby daughter just loved placing the chicks in the out of the eggs, even if closing the eggs again proved to be a bit too difficult for her.
I even got to practice a bit of color matching while the two munchkins played. However, that was only because I was lucky enough to find baby chicks that were the same color as the eggs.
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Are you going to try a Birds Nest Sensory Bin with your kids?
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Over 90+ pages of Spring themed play based learning activities and craft templates. Perfect for preschool and kindergarten.
