Soccer Sensory Bin
The soccer sensory bin is a fun sensory bin that you can put together for kids. It is great for a soccer theme or a football theme.
Kids will love playing with the soccer erasers in the simple rice sensory bin filler.
You can use this soccer sensory bin with preschool, prek, and kindergarten age kids. You can use it for a great summer soccer theme or maybe a summer football theme, depending on where you live.
The soccer Sensory Bin is a great addition to the soccer 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.
Soccer Sensory Bin
The soccer sensory bin is a simple bin with a green color and soccer balls in a rice filler. This takes under 30 seconds to put together. And it is easy for kids to play in.
This sensory bin is great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6). Be sure to make sure that kids are not putting items in their mouths if you use the sensory bin idea.
A fun Soccer Book to Read with the Soccer Sensory Bin
A fun book to read is Curious George Plays Soccer. It is a great way to introduce soccer to kids. You have a fun story and all the different parts of soccer. Plus it is a fun way to learn about the sport.
What We Used to Make the Soccer Sensory Bin
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Ways to Use the Soccer Sensory Bin
You are going to see a few ways we have use the soccer sensory bin with kids.
Play in Soccer Sensory Bins
Sensory bins are made for sensory play. You can just have kids play in the sensory bin. They them run their hands through the sensory bin. They can fill the difference of the soccer ball erases, rice and green rocks.
Kids can scoop and pour out the items from the sensory bin. It is so much fun to just do sensory play.
Sorting the Green Rocks & Soccer Balls
You can do a simple sorting activity in the sensory bin. You can have kids sort the green rocks and the soccer balls. They can sort in the sensory bin or out of the sensory bin. Let kids decide what they want to sort the items. It is great for fine motor to pick up the small items in the sensory bin with their fingers.
Making Letters, Numbers & Shapes With Soccer Balls
You can have some fun matching letters, shapes and numbers in the soccer sensory bin. You can see how we made a letter in the sensory bin.
It is an uppercase letter S for soccer.
You can also do lowercase letters as well. And we did f for football.
If you need help with letters you can use the soccer letter matching printable. It has soccer themed letter cards.
And just play in the Sensory Bin
Now if all you did with this sensory bin is play in the sensory bin. Then you did amazing! Sensory bins are meant for sensory play. They can be calming and give kids something to do that they will love.
You can also add in sensory toys for scooping and pouring. We have a set and use it often with the super simple sensory bins.
And don’t just limit the sensory bin to just preschool and kindergarten. There are older kids who love sensory bin as well! See what works best for you and do it!
More Soccer Activities for Kids
Soccer Fine Motor Mat has 4 different mats with a soccer ball template, soccer ball tracing page, Soccer ball dot marker page and a soccer ball cotton swab page. All great for fine motor for a soccer theme for kids.
No-Prep Soccer Weekly Pack has weekly packs with a soccer/football theme. They have PreK, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, Third Grade, and Fourth Grade. You will find 4 pages of printables for each with. They are great for extra practice, homework, and morning work. They have a mix of math and language activities.
Sports Dot the Number & Counting has Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Baseball & Football. You have a dot marker number with counting from 0 to 20! You have color and black and white versions.
Soccer Number Sense Sorting Printable has numbers from 1 to 10 with sorting of tally marks, dominos, number words, ten frames, and dice. A great way to work on number subitizing.
Soccer Shape Find has 12 shapes for kids to work on with shape word and geometric shape for kids. A fun way to work on shapes.
Check out all the fun Soccer Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com