Pirate Treasure Kinetic Sensory Bin
A fun pirate treasure sensory bin for kids. It has gems and gold to search and play. Sensory bins are fun to have with different fillers. This sensory bin uses kinetic sand. But you can check out the pirate treasure rice sensory bin for a different filler.
The sensory bin only takes a minute to set up and start using. We’ve used the gold and gems several times.
A fun pirate sensory bin for kids in preschool, prek and kindergarten.
The Pirate Treasure Kinetic Sensory Bin is a great addition to the pirate 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 of filler with small items.
Pirate Treasure Kinetic Sensory Bin
The pirate treasure sensory bin has gold acrylic rocks and fun colors of gems. We used kinetic sand for the filler for the sensory bin.
It is simple to set up and use. We use this sensory bin with kids in preschool (ages 5 to 6), prek (ages 4 to 5) and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6). But remember older kids may also enjoy sensory play as well.
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A Fun Pirate Book to Read with the Pirate Treasure Sensory Bin
Pete the Cat and the Treasure Map is a fun book that kids will love as they look for buried gold and jewels. There are some kids who love a book tie in with the sensory bin.
What we used to make the Pirate Treasure Kinetic Sensory Bin
Always make sure that the items you use are okay for the age of kids using the sensory bin.
Ways to Use the Pirate Treasure Kinetic Sensory Bin
You are going to see a few ways to use the pirate treasure sensory bin for kids. These are just ideas. And always follow the lead of kids using the sensory bin.
Just Play in the Pirate Sensory Bin
One of the fun part about a sensory bin is just playing in the sensory bin. Let them explore the gold and jewels in the bin. It is fun to see the gold and different colors of jewels as they play in the sensory bin.
And let them enjoy playing with the different parts as well. You can add cups or sensory scoops if kids want them.
Sort Gold and Gems In the Sensory Bin
You can do a fun sorting activity. You can have kids sort the gems and gold to different sides of the bin. And it is fun to dig in the sand to find them all.
You can talk about colors while you sort the gems. What color is that gems? Did you see a blue gem? What gem is close to the gold color.
Make Letters, Numbers & Shapes
If you have an area cleared up you can make letters, numbers and shapes with the gems or gold. You can see we made a letter in the sensory bin. You can pick letters in their name, number of the day or shape they are learning.
Bury the Treasure
It is loads of fun to burry all the gems and gold in the sand. You can make a pile on the gems and gold in the middle. You can then color it all with the sand. A fun way to play in the sand and items.
You can also have fun digging out the treasure after you are done. And do the activity again if you want.
Remember to Just play in the Pirate Treasure Sensory Bin
As always remember to play in the sensory bins. They are mainly for play but kids can have fun learning in them as well.
But sensory play is really important to some kids. And keeping a sensory bin around helps them with their sensory needs.
More Pirate Activities for Kids
Pirate Sensory Bin is a fun sensory bin for kids to use. You have pirate, gold coins and rice for the sensory bin.
Talk Like a Pirate No-Prep Weekly Packs fun weekly packs that have 5 days of printables with 4 pages per day. You have Prek, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade.
Pirate Activity Pack: Prewriting, Shapes, ABCs & Numbers – It has pirate themed easy reader books, pirate themed clip cards, pirate themed tracing strips and pirate themed no-prep worksheets.
Pirate ABC Tracing Strip Printables has all 26 letters of the alphabet with tracing uppercase and lowercase letters together.
Pirate CVC Words Write Beginning Sounds Worksheet has 5 fun worksheets for kids to work on beginning sounds for CVC words with a worksheet for each short a, short e, short i, short o, and short u.
Pirate Number Find has numbers 0 to 20 with number digit and number word. It is a great no-prep pirate number printable. You have tracing the number and then finding the number.
Check out all the fun Pirate Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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