Halloween Sensory Bin

Lots of choking hazards, so children under 3 AND children of any age still putting items in their mouth, are only allowed to play under direct, strict supervision.

Learning activities:

• Sorting by orange/black/white
• Sorting by pumpkins/skulls/bats
• Sorting by item
• Counting to 5/10/20+
• Matching bugs
• Stick puppets
• Retelling "5 Little Pumpkins"
• Role playing "Witches Brew"
• Retelling "5 Little Skeletons"
• Make a skeleton
• Patterning
• Scoop/pour/transferring

What's in it?

• Main fill is black and white beans
• Qtips for bones
• Orange/black/white pom poms
• 2 bags of bugs (Dollar Tree)
• Skull/pumpkin/bat erasers (Dollar Tree)
• Gold pipe cleaners
• Mini caldrons (Dollar Tree)
• Stick puppets, Frankenstein and pumpkin

• White cloth pieces
• Bats (Dollar Tree)
• Orange/black/white feathers
• Stick ghost puppets
• Bag of plastic eyeballs (Dollar Tree)
• Bag of plastic skulls (Dollar Tree)

• Packing peanuts for ghosts or bones
• Large styrofoam pumpkins

 Mr. R: "The beans are his bones and muscles."

 A favorite activity of the 2 year olds.

They figured out that they could take apart the eyeballs, fill them with beans, and put them back together to make mini maracas.

I found that they really liked just tearing apart the packing peanuts. Still a great fine motor activity and since they are free..."Go for it!"
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