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Toddler Tuesday: Orange Sensory Bin

by Angela Thayer 4 Comments

Happy Toddler Tuesday! Something a toddler should learn is their colors. Some naturally learn them through daily life or books and others need time to really learn them. My oldest son learned them naturally and my youngest son called everything green until I did some color activities with him. Today I am sharing one way you could teach toddlers to learn their colors.

Toddlers love sensory bins, so I thought I would create a bin all with one color. Today I am sharing our Orange Sensory Bin. Since big brother is learning about the letter O this week, orange seemed like an appropriate color to learn this week.

Orange Sensory Bin

In this bin I put orange colored rice (see how to color rice here), small oranges, cut up pool noodle pieces, pumpkin, shapes, and cup. I also gave my boys spoons, bowls, and other tools to explore with.

Orange Sensory Bin

The boys got right to work exploring their new sensory bin! (Can I just add that my boys act like Christmas morning when Im getting these bins ready. They hover over me trying to see what new exciting things they’ll get to do that day. That makes my heart happy!)

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orange sensory bin

Their favorite part was eating the oranges. They gobbled those up in no time and that took care of snack time!

orange

There was a lot of scooping and pouring…

scooping

playing

And I look away for a minute and they made a mess….usually I do this outside over a sheet but I thought I would try it on this mat. Yep. Next time I will go outside! HA!

Orange Sensory Bin

Though it may look like a simple activity, they played with it for about an hour. They love just being creative and making a mess!

So if your child struggles with learning their colors, try creating a color-themed sensory bin!

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  1. Marcela says

    February 18, 2014 at 11:06 pm

    At the moment everything is green for my lil one too, so I will definitely be trying this!

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  2. Jennifer says

    November 30, 2013 at 3:29 am

    I’m always looking for new things to keep my toddler entertained and learning all at the same time! I love this idea, it seems like so much fun! I instantly thought of “this will happen outside” when I saw the rice! Thanks for the great idea!

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  3. Jackie says

    October 28, 2013 at 2:46 pm

    This is a great sensory bin. I love all of the orange things you found to use and how you incorporated snack time right into play time. 🙂
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  4. Anna says

    October 18, 2013 at 6:47 pm

    Can’t wait to do this with my kids. I was looking for some Halloween activities to do next week. And BONUS, learning colors is always a great idea. 🙂

    Reply
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