Green & Blue Button Sensory Bin for Earth Day

The Green and Blue Button Sensory Bin is a simple sensory bin for Earth Day or an Earth theme. You have rice with blue buttons and green buttons added for the sensory play.

It takes less than a minute to set up this color sensory bin for Earth Day.

This blue and green sensory bin is a fun twist on the blue and green acrylic rock sensory bin.

You can use the blue and green button sensory bin for preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten.

Blue & Green Button Sensory Bin for Earth Day - you have a simple sensory bin with a rice filler with blue and green sensory bins. - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Earth Day Button Sensory Bin is a great addition to the Earth Day activities and sensory bins on the site.

What is a sensory bin?

A sensory bin is typically a plastic tub or container filled with carefully selected materials and objects to stimulate the senses of children in preschool.

Sensory bins might have rice, water beads, corn, beans, or other types filled with small items.

Earth Day Button Sensory Bin

This is a simple blue and green sensory bin for Earth Day. You have blue buttons and green buttons in the sensory bin. we used rice as the filled for the sensory bin. We use a paper bin for the size of the sensory bin.

Earth Books to Read with Blue and Green Button Sensory Bin

A great book to read is Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years. It has lots of fun information about the Earth. It is also in a great planet series.

Stephanie Manka Schuttler also have a second book called My First Book of Earth: All About Our Planet for Kids that is also another great Earth Book. Both are great to read with kids and learn more fact and information about our planet.

What we used to make the Earth Day Blue and Green Button Sensory Bin

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Ways to Use the Earth Day Green and Blue Button Sensory Bin

These are just ideas and remember that there is no one right way to use a sensory bin.

Play in the Sensory Bin

Sensory play is important for kids. You can let kids just play in sensory bin. They are not meant to perfect and kept looking nice. They are made to be mess and played in.

Let kids make a mess in the sensory bin. They will enjoy just playing.

Scoop and Pour with Hands

A fun activity is scooping and pouring the buttons and rice in the bin. You can do this with your hands or with a cup or sensory scoops.

It is fun to listen to the rice and buttons as they hit the bin again. And yes this cab make a mess. But that is okay. You should let them make a mess. If you are working put a sheet or town under the bin to make cleaning up the rice easier.

Sorting the Green and Blue Colors

You can have kid sort that colors in the sensory bin. You can have them pick if they sort the buttons in the sensory bin or outside the sensory bin.

You can talk about the blue is the ocean and the green of the ground. A great fine motor skill for sorting and color recognition.

Making Letters, Numbers & Shapes With the Buttons

For older kids challenge them with letters, shapes, and numbers! You can tell them a letter and have them make it. You could do a letter from their number, a letter they are working, number of the day, circles for the shape of the Earth and more!

And just play in the Sensory Bin

And if all you do is play in the sensory bin then have you done amazing! Kids love play and just letting them play is as important as other types learning.

And yes older kids can use sensory bins as well. Don’t limit sensory play to just kids in preschool and kindergarten.