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Penguin Sensory Bin

December 18, 2014 by Emma Edwards 2 Comments

When we heard about the Pre-School Winter Fun blog hop hosted by Preschool Powol Packets I knew it would be the perfect opportunity to make a penguin sensory bin that has been on our to-do-list for ages. “Me…” by Emma Dodd(affiliate link)  is a book I’ve read to Adam each night since he was a month old.

Adventures of Adam Me by Emma Dodd

It is a firm favourite bed time story.  The poetic storyline and beautiful illustrations keep Adam captivated. The book inspired our penguin sensory bin.

Adventures of Adam Penguin Sensory Bin

Around our white sensory bin I attached Penguin Duck Tape (affiliate link). Over night I placed small marshmallows in the freezer. This made the marshmallows cold to touch and they became slightly hard. We also made ice circles by pouring water in a meat balls plastic container and freezing it. Cotton wool balls were used to separate each of the different resource.

Adventures of Adam marshmallows and ice sensory bin

Instead of shaving foam we used Peppa Pig Foam Soap (affiliate link) which is meant to be mouldable. To create our sea I mixed blue food colouring in with the foam soap. As a finishing touch I cut up a small piece of tinsel.

Adventures of Adam Shaving Foam sensory bin

I couldn’t find our small penguin toys so instead we used chocolate penguins purchased from PoundLand. Adam had great fun moving the penguins around the sensory bin – especially in the foam soap sea. He also explored the different textures created by each type of ‘snow’.

Adventures of Adam chocolate penguin sensory bin

 Equipment:

* Me…by Emma Dodd (affiliate link)

* White box

* Penguin Duck Tape (affiliate link)

* Cotton wool balls

* Ice

* Tinsel and scissors

* Peppa Pig Foam Soap (affiliate link)

* Blue food colouring

* Chocolate penguins

 

Adam was 2 years and 7 months old.

Penguin Sensory Bin

Take a look at the other Pre-school winter fun crafts and activities as part of the winter time blog hop series:

Pre School Winter Fun

 

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Filed Under: Play Activities, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: Animal themed play, Book themed play, Christmas activity, Cupboard Resources, Duck Tape, Food colouring, Messy activity, Penguin, Sensory Play Activities, Shaving Foam, Toddler play

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  1. Tarana Khan says

    December 19, 2014 at 1:07 pm

    This is fun! I especially like the use of foam soap and ice circles.

    Reply
  2. Louise says

    December 21, 2014 at 11:23 pm

    I love this sensory bin, its so cute. I bet Adam had a great time with it.

    Reply

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During a difficult pregnancy suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Emma vowed to make every day an adventure once she had recovered. Adventures of Adam is the outcome of completing a 100 day play challenge with Adam as part of that promise. Emma has a section dedicated to HG friendly play activities so that Mums can still be part of their children’s play whilst they are ill.

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