Learn how to make an Eyeball Soup Sensory Bin for your kids. This is a fun and easy sensory activity is perfect for Halloween. Toddlers and Preschoolers will love making their own spooky concoctions with just a few simple materials.
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More Halloween Themed Sensory Activities
There are so many fun sensory play ideas with a halloween theme. Here are some of my favorite ideas to get you inspired.
- Halloween Pom Pom Sensory Bin
- Skeleton Sensory Activity
- Halloween Spaghetti Sensory Bin
- Halloween Sensory Bottles
- Fizzy Sensory Bin for Halloween
For more ideas, take a look at these 26 Sensory Activities for Halloween.
Materials Needed
- A large plastic tub
- Water
- Green food coloring
- Googly eyes or eyeball props
- Plastic spiders (optional)
- Mini cauldrons (optional)
- Sensory bin tools (cups, spoons and bowls)
How to Make an Eyeball Soup Sensory Bin
1. Fill a plastic container with water.
2. Place green food coloring into the water.
The amount of food coloring you use will depend on the size of your container. Larger tubs will need more food coloring. Luckily you can just add food dye as you go, until you get the color you want.
3. Place the eyeballs and googly eyes into the water.
I didn’t have as many ping pong eyeballs as I would have liked for this sensory bin. Fortunately, I did have some large googly eyes which were perfect. They floated along the top of the water just like I wanted.
If you do use googly eyes, just make sure you use the ones that are completely sealed. Some googly eyes are perforated in the back, so that you can easily sew them onto craft projects. But this kind will let the water in and possibly make your eyes unsuitable for future projects.
4. Enjoy playing.
Different Ways to Play
Scoop and pour
USe the cups and spoons to collect and transfer the eyeball soup from one container to the other. This is such a simple activity, but it’s a surprisingly great way to keep your toddlers and preschoolers engaged for a long time.
Making soup
Do some pretend play and make your own soup bowls. Perhaps your young children would like to open up their own spooky restaurant and sell their eyeball soup to you.
Sorting the spiders and eyeballs
This is one reason why I wanted to add spiders into my eyeball soup, because I wanted my kids to practice some sorting. Sort the eyeballs and spiders into two separate containers, and help your young kids develop some math skills while they do.
What You’re Learning
Sensory
Tactile – There are a variety of different textures in this sensory bin. From the cool wet water, to the smooth eyeballs and the rough mini cauldrons.
Auditory – enjoy the sound the water makes as you pour it from one container to another. It’ll also make sounds if you try to make waves with your hands or dump the water back into the tub from varying heights.
Visual – Not only is the bright green water visually stimulating, the various props also reflect light differently.
High sheen items (like the googly eyes) will shine more when you move the objects back and forth in the sun. Whereas rough items (like the mini cauldrons) do not, and will not reflect light in the same way.
Fine Motor Skills
Fine motor skills refer to the small muscles in the hand and fingers. Developing these skills are important in being able to write when the kids go to school, as well as being able to complete tasks independently. (For example, dressing and feeding themselves).
Using the sensory bin tools, as well as picking up the small items are all going to help young kids develop:
- Pincer grip
- Palmar grasp
- Hand-eye coordination
- Dexterity
- Hand strength
Math
Sorting – Sorting and classifying is an essential math skill that toddlers and preschoolers can learn. If you decide to use a variety of googly eye sizes, you can also sort the eyes from biggest to smallest.
Counting – Practice counting to 10 or 20 while you place each of the eyes into a bowl.
Measuring – I love using measuring spoons with sensory bins for exactly this reason. However you can also use regular spoons and cups and do informal measuring instead. For example, how many spoons does it take to fill up this small cup.
Are you going to try this Eyeball Soup Sensory Bin with your kids?
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