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Easter Sensory Bin with Colored Rice

Easter Sensory Bin with Colored Rice

February 22, 2019 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

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This Easter sensory bin is made with colored rice, plastic eggs, little chicks and fine motor tools. Bright and colorful, this rice bin is fun for all ages.


 

One of our favorite ways to celebrate the holidays is by making a themed sensory bin! This Easter sensory bin is such a fun one, with colored rice, easter grass, plastic eggs, little bunnies and chicks and a silicone egg mold, my kids are keeping very busy!  Tip: I like to stock up on items after the holidays so I can get them at a discount!

This Easter sensory bin is made with colored rice, plastic eggs, little chicks and fine motor tools. Bright and colorful, this rice bin is fun for all ages.

An Easter Sensory Bin Kids Will Love!

This Easter sensory bin uses a colored rice base and fine motor ideas for play. Before using the rice for sensory play, check out this fun method of coloring Easter eggs with colored rice! 

To Make the Rice Bin:

What you need: 

dry rice

colored rice (see below)

fine motor tools

plastic eggs

tray or bin

fuzzy Easter chicks or colored pom poms

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Colored Rice

The colored rice is a favorite of my kids’! It last forever and they get a ton of use out of it. My kids especially enjoy any activity involving food coloring and color mixing!

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There are many variations for how to make this rice, we simply put the rice in a ziplock bag, add a drop or two of food coloring  or washable kids paint, along with a squirt of hand sanitizer and give it a good shake! It smells so fresh too 🙂

 

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I keep a bin of various scoopers, spoons etc for our sensory bin play. I think all toddlers love anything having to do with dumping and scooping!

 

This Easter sensory bin is made with colored rice, plastic eggs, little chicks and fine motor tools. Bright and colorful, this rice bin is fun for all ages.

 
 
Add you contents to the bin and let children explore! Tweezers are great tools for pre-handwriting practice! They strengthen little fingers, getting them ready to hold pencils and pens in the future.
 
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If you can’t find these little chicks, see how we’ve made some similar ones with pom-poms in our counting chicks busy bag.
 
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 After a while the rice will all be mixed together, creating a beautiful rainbow mixture!

Children (and adults) learn best when all senses are engaged, and these sensory bins are the perfect tool for exactly that. We hope you get a chance to make an Easter sensory bin too!

Use your Easter Sensory Bin with Toddlers:

 

This Easter sensory bin is made with colored rice, plastic eggs, little chicks and fine motor tools. Bright and colorful, this rice bin is fun for all ages.

Scooping and dumping is great for little ones! Colored rice (made with food coloring) while not tasty, is a great sensory bin filler for young ones because it is edible. Toddlers can scoop and transfer rice to eggs or small containers.

Fill the eggs with rice and make musical shakers. We even had an Easter parade!

 

Use your Easter Sensory Bin with Preschoolers:

 

This Easter sensory bin is made with colored rice, plastic eggs, little chicks and fine motor tools. Bright and colorful, this rice bin is fun for all ages.

 

Color matching and counting are great skills for preschoolers to work on with this sensory bin. They can put the colored chicks (or pom pom ‘chicks’ into their respective eggs by matching the colors. Additionally, they can count how many chicks or eggs they have as they fill them!

 

Use your Easter Sensory Bin with Elementary-Aged Children:

 

This Easter sensory bin is made with colored rice, plastic eggs, little chicks and fine motor tools. Bright and colorful, this rice bin is fun for all ages.

 

Addition and subtraction are fun to practice with sensory bin fillers! I like to put a couple of simple equations on craft sticks for the kids to solve. They can place the number of chicks they are adding on the stick to find the answer! What a fun way to practice math!

 

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However you play, kids of multiple ages will love this colorful rice sensory bin!


  • Make some baking soda eggs, hide a surprise inside, and let your kids make them erupt with some vinegar! They will love to do this again and again!
  • Dyeing Easter eggs with Cool Whip or shaving cream is such a fun baby-safe Easter egg activity. Engage in some fun sensory play while dyeing eggs! #eastereggdyeing #eastereggswithcoolwhip #babysafeeastereggs #viewsfromastepstool #easteractivities #kidsactivities

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