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4 Fall Sensory Bags for Babies and Toddlers

4 Fall Sensory Bags for Babies and Toddlers

September 5, 2018 By Katie Chiavarone Leave a Comment

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These Fall sensory bags contain leaves, acorns and pony beads to create visual stimulation and fine motor play for kids. Great for babies and toddlers.


Sensory bags are one of our favorite items to make.

Kids can become involved in making them, and they are safe for babies and toddlers to play with. These Fall sensory bags encourage sensory play and fine motor development in kids and are perfect for mess-free sensory play.

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Fall Sensory Bags for Babies and Toddlers

Sensory bags provide so many fun learning opportunities for kids.

They use fine motor skills to move the contents about while stimulating their visual sense. Additionally, the bags encourage language development as you discuss the bottle with your child!

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What you need for your Fall sensory bags:

  • clear hair gel
  • quart sized ziplock bags
  • Fall leaf confetti
  • plastic acorns
  • fabric/plastic leaves
  • yellow, orange and brown pony beads
  • black permanent marker
  • duct tape (optional)

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To make the Fall sensory bags:

Add hair gel to each bag, about a quarter of the way up.

To the gel, and the various Fall items and draw a scene on the front of the bag.

We chose to use Fall leaf confetti, plastic acorns, fabric leaves and some calico corn or ‘indian corn’ colored pony beads. All of these items were found at the Dollar Store. This made all 4 of these bags less than $10 to make.

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RELATED: Use the same contents to make Fall sensory bottles.

*Duct tape the top and sides of the bag if you are worried that children might pop open the bags and potentially choke on the contents.

Falling Leaves Sensory Bag

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Draw a basic tree with branches on the front of the bag and add the leaf confetti to the hair gel.

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Children can move the leaves about the tree, helping the leaves fall to the ground or going back on the tree.

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When playing with the leaf bag, discuss the shape of the leaves, and any other details. The confetti might be shiny or metallic, these are great details to discuss with your little ones!

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Calico Corn Sensory Bag

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Using reds, oranges, yellows and browns, this sensory bottle looks like calico corn! Add the pony beads to the gel to create calico corn kernels.

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Draw a rough picture of a corn cob on the front of the bag. Children can place the corn kernels inside the cob by sliding the beads with their fingers. Older children might be able to line them up in rows or even create patterns with the colors.

Feed the Squirrel Sensory Bag

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Draw a squirrel shape on the front of the bag and add acorns to the gel. Now children can feed the squirrel its acorns!

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The acorn bag provides a great opportunity to discuss these nuts, which trees they grow on and which animals like to eat them, all while minimizing the choking hazard of playing with them for babies and toddlers.

 

Raking Leaves Sensory Bag

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Draw a bin and a rake on the front of the bag. Add the fabric leaves to the gel in the bag.

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Children can use their fingers to rake the leaves into the bin. Then, ‘spill’ the bin out, and do it again!

 

Tape the sensory bags to a window to see how the sun shines through them. There are so many ways to play and learn with these, the opportunities are endless. Have so much fun making your Fall sensory bags for babies and toddlers! Psst…older kids love playing with these too 😉

 


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