This month Nat and Nora are learning about bugs and crawly things.
Every few days I like to put out new materials for them to explore in our sensory table.
Here are some sensory table ideas we have done this month for our big theme:
1. The Very Hungry Caterpillar:
This bin is filled with:
- Eric Carle's Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Caterpillar stuffed toy
- Butterfly puppet
- Play food
- Plates, spoons, bowls
- Leaves
- Split Peas (as the base)
The girls had a blast acting out the story and making up new versions. They fed the caterpillar, built it a cocoon, and turned him into a butterfly.
2. Ant Invasion:
This bin is filled with:
- Green Basket Filler
- Beans
- Plastic ants
- Ant hill (Plastic bottle covered with salt dough and then painted brown)
- Toilet paper roll (Tunnels)
- Leaves
- Bowls
- Dice
- Clothes pins with the letters that spell out ANTS
- Spiders
The girls were busy counting the ants as they entered and left the ant hill. Natalie created math word problems and was busy adding and subtracting different quantities of them.
3. Bug Bonanza
This bin is filled with:
- Beans
- Rocks
- Leaves
- Plastic Bugs
- Jars
- Tongs
The girls organized the bugs by color and then made patterns of bugs crawling in lines.
4. Spider Web
This bin is filled with:
- Beans
- Rocks
- Leaves
- Plastic bugs
- Jars
- Tongs
- Spiders
- String wrapped around the table (to form a web)
The girls worked together to save the bugs before they were caught in the spiders web.
What sensory table ideas have you tried?
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