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Harvest Sensory Bin

October 18, 2014 by Emma Gadsby Leave a Comment

It is hard to believe it is Autumn already and that the harvest has come and gone. As we live in the countryside Adam regularly sees tractors carrying different loads. What better way to celebrate harvest than with a harvest sensory bin using different cereals from the kitchen cupboard.

Adventures of Adam harvest sensory bin

We used Shreddies, Weetabix and Cherrios. In the box I placed our fake grass mat as a base  and added a farm house and a variety of tractors. At one end I stacked toilet roll tubes to represent hay bales.

Adventures of Adam farm and harvest small world

Adam’s play focused on the Weetabix. He transferred them from one side of the sensory bin and placed them inside the toilet roll tubes. There were a few tubes Adam couldn’t push the Weetabix into because they were are the bottom of the stack. So he pulled the tube out from the bottom of the pile and pushed the Weetabix in and then made the stack up again.

Adventures of Adam playing with shredded wheat

Next Adam discovered he could stack the Weetabix. They made a great tower. His record was making a stack of 8 Weetabix.

Adventures of Adam playing with cereal

Adam is a fussy eater and rarely shows interest in food. However, during our harvest sensory bin play he picked up some Shreddies and had a nibble. It wasn’t long before he was picking piece after piece up and eating them.  Our harvest sensory bin had turned into a large snack bowl – although it did have me running into the kitchen to retrieve the packaging to ensure that the cereals didn’t contain milk. I wonder what other foods I could introduce. I blame our recent edible dinosaur sensory bin!

Adventures of Adam Harvest Sensory Bin

Equipment:

* A variety of cereals. We used Shreddies, Weetabix and Cherrios.

* Fake grass mat

* Farm house and tractors

* Toilet roll tubes

 

Adam was 2 years and 5 months old.

 

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Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Play Activities, Super Quick Play Activities Tagged With: Cupboard Resources, Fine Motor Activities, Independent Play Activities, Recycled materials, Role-play, Sensory Play Activities, Super quick set up, Transport activity

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