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Straw Spring Sensory Bin

January 31, 2015 by Emma Edwards Leave a Comment

Wow – how can it be the last day of our 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge. What an amazing month it has been. Our final sensory play challenge was to play with straws. Straws are seen as an emergency play activity in our house. If I need to distract Adam for a while then the box of straws will come out. Kitchen cupboard items are great to use with straws and it becomes a super fine motor skills activity. Cut up straws also make a good sensory bin base as we found out when making our Halloween Sensory Bin.

Adventures of Adam Straw Spring Sensory Bin

Today we created a Spring Sensory Bin made from cut up straws. Cut up green straws represented the grass and black cut up straws formed the soil. Orange straws represented carrots and a few straws had foam stickers placed on top to be flowers.

Adventures of Adam Straw sensory bin

We didn’t have enough green straws to fill our sensory bin so I used green shredded paper underneath. I cut up cardboard tubes to be used as plant pots and egg box sections were used to store the carrots ready to be placed in the soil.

Adventures of Adam Sensory bin made from straws

Adam had a great time ‘hiding’ the carrots into the black straw soil. The cut up straws also made a wonderful noise when they were dropped back into the sensory bin!

Equipment:

* Scissors

* Green and black straws. Orange straws optional

* A box

 

31 Day Sensory Play Challenge Blog Hop:

Fireflies and Mud Pies are joining us for the last day in our Blog Hop. Take a look at their 20 creative straw activities!

Adventures of Adam Spring sensory bin made from straws

Other sensory activities using straws:

Adventures of Adam fine motor skills straws
Playing with straws
Adventures of Adam fine motor Halloween
Halloween Straw Sensory Bin
Adventures of Adam Spider Straw Race
Halloween Straw Race

20 Creative Straw Activities from Fireflies and Mud Pies
Using straws to erupt bubbles from Learning and Exploring Through Play

To find out more about our 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge 2015 click here.

 

31 Day Sensory Play Challenge calendar download

Adventures of Adam 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge 2016

Filed Under: Play Activities, Play Challenges, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: 31 Day Sensory Play Challenge, Cupboard Resources, Fine Motor Activities, Sensory Play Activities, Straws, Toddler play

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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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