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Apple Sensory Bin {With Free Printable}

by Angela Thayer 14 Comments

I absolutely love fall and am excited to start doing some fall activities with my boys. Although it will be blazing hot out this week in our town (highs in the 90s and 100s!), I thought it would be fun to start doing some apple activities. To start our apple unit, we created an apple sensory bin.

Apple Sensory Bin

In this bin, I put dry oatmeal, plastic apples, and a few acorns that are buried. I bought the plastic apples at Michael’s Craft Store. They come in a pack of 20 for $6.99. I know it is kind of expensive, but I’m also going to use them as decorations around the house this fall. And I always use a 40% off coupon when I’m at Michael’s!

I set up an invitation to play on our back deck. I took a large sheet and placed the sensory bin, tools, and pattern cards on the sheet. I love placing a sheet down when we use sensory bins because it makes clean up very easy!

Invitation to play with Apple Sensory Bin

The boys dug, poured, buried and uncovered apples and acorns with this bin.

Apple Sensory Bin

My oldest practiced fine motor skills with tweezers. He also enjoyed counting all the apples he pulled out with his tweezers.

tweezers

Then we practiced patterns with apple cards I created.

Pattern Cards with Apple Sensory Bin

Free Pattern Cards for Apple Sensory Bin

I created these cards to help my 3 year old practice patterning. To use these, I had him place apples on top of the appropriate colors. After he completed a row, I asked him what color would come next. I was surprised at how well he did at this! 🙂

Apple Pattern Cards {Free Printable}

I printed these sheets on cardstock paper and placed them in plastic sleeves.  You can download your own set, here —> Apple Pattern Cards

Have a great day!

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  1. Deb @ Living Montessori Now says

    September 19, 2013 at 11:18 am

    This is such a great activity! I had fun revisiting it. I featured your post and photo in my 30+ Apple Sensory Tubs post today. 🙂
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  2. Sarah says

    September 4, 2013 at 11:17 am

    I love this one and it is being featured today at the Ultimate Sensory Play Party. Hope you come and share another one or two!
    Sarah recently posted…Ultimate Sensory Play Party Linky #5My Profile

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  3. Amanda says

    September 1, 2013 at 9:15 pm

    Love this idea! Where did you get that cute little skunk?

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    • Angela Thayer says

      September 1, 2013 at 10:34 pm

      Thanks, Amanda! I got it at a local school supply store called The Learning Post. Perhaps you could find it on Amazon?

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  4. Deb @ Living Montessori Now says

    September 1, 2013 at 1:53 pm

    I love your sensory bin, Angela! Great idea to make pattern cards to go with it! Thanks so much for sharing your free pattern cards. I featured your post as the Free Printable of the Day at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page (and will feature it on my Free Printable of the Day Pinterest board once Pinterest is back up).
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  5. Sara R. says

    August 31, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    Oats?! Seriously brilliant! I hadn’t thought of using them. And now I will! Thank you for sharing! We will also be using your apple pattern cards.

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    • Angela Thayer says

      September 3, 2013 at 7:48 pm

      Thank you! 🙂 I love using oats in sensory bins–it smells great!

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  6. Alex @ TeachThroughPlay says

    August 28, 2013 at 12:46 pm

    love this sensory bin. I try to spend as little as possible, but I think I might “splurge” on the plastic apples too. You’re right they would be used over and over so why not. Pinning This
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  7. Sarah says

    August 28, 2013 at 11:54 am

    I love this bin and really hope you come share it with us today! I am so excited for fall things.
    Sarah recently posted…Ultimate Wednesday Sensory Play Party #4My Profile

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  8. Gina says

    August 26, 2013 at 6:05 pm

    I think oats must feel and smell amazing, that looks like a great sensory activity.

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  9. Martianne says

    August 26, 2013 at 3:11 pm

    I love how you set up the invitation to play. I also how you put the bin together. Ca you tell me what size it is. I have been using a shoe size type box lately for space reasons, but think a bit bigger might be better. Your looks bigger, but not too big. So, I am curious what actual bin you are using. If you could let me know by emailing me or leaving a comment at http://traininghappyhearts.blogspot.com/, I’d appreciate it. I also put together an apple bin recently – http://traininghappyhearts.blogspot.com/2013/08/apple-picking-sensory-bin-kit.html
    Martianne recently posted…Officially Introducing Art, Imagination and the NFLMy Profile

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    • Angela Thayer says

      September 9, 2013 at 4:40 pm

      Hi, Martianne! I apologize for taking so long to write back to your comment. The size is 12 quarts. I think it is a perfect size. Hope that helps!

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