Space Button Sensory Bin
The space button sensory bin is a great sensory bin idea for kids. You have space items and black buttons for the filler.
This sensory bin is easy to set up and great for a space week theme or even during World Space Week.
You can use this space sensory bin with kids in prek and kindergarten.
The Space Button Sensory Bin is a great addition to the space 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.
Space Button Sensory Bin
The space sensory bin uses stars, space figures, space equipment, planets, and black buttons as the filler. It does not take long to put together and is easy to clean up a well.
Space Book to read With the Space Button Sensory Bin
Here are two fun space book to read with the space sensory bin.
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The Planets by Gail Gibbons is a great book. This one has been updated since it came up for the updates to Pluto and other facts we have learned about space. Each planet has facts and information to learn. There are great vocabulary words as well. And some of those vocab words also match up to the sensory bin items.
There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library) is a fun rhyming books about space. This is fun to see how you go from place to place in the book. And you learn a lot of space terms in a fun way.
What we used to make the Space Button Sensory Bin
Always make sure to watch kids who are playing in a sensory bin. You also want to make sure the items in the sensory bin area okay for kids to have and won’t put in their mouth.
Ways to Use the Space Button Sensory Bin
You are going to see a few ways we have used the space button sensory bin.
Play in the Space Sensory Bin
Sensory bins are for sensory play. And if all you do is play with the items in the sensory bin then you have done a great job.
Let them scoop and pour and explore each part of the sensory bin. Kids will love play in the bin with all the different textures and figures.
Sort Items in the Space Sensory Bin
You can have some fun and sort items in the sensory bin. You can sort planets, people and equipment. You could also sort stars, we just did not this time.
You can also ask about the difference between the space people and the different types of space equipment.
Put the Planets in order
You can challenge kids to put the planets in order. And this is super fun to look at the planets and see which would fit in what order.
You can use a book for help if you need it.
Use the Stars to Make Letters, Numbers & Shapes
You can use the stars in the bin to make letters, numbers or shapes. Tell them what to make. You can say make a circles. Then they make a circle.
It is fun to challenge kids with this. And works great for older kids and still work on sensory play.
Find Buttons that are Similar
Since this is a collection of random black buttons you can challenge kids to find buttons that are similar or the same. You could also have them find buttons that are the same size even if they look different.
A fun way to work fine motor and different comparing skills.
Remember to Always Play in the Sensory Bin
Always remember that is all you do is play in a sensory bin, then that is okay. Sensory bins are make for sensory play.
We don’t do amazing set ups for sensory bins, because they are just going to play in the bin. And why spend the time with a fun display for it all to get mixed up.
More Space Activities for Kids
Space Rice and Rock Sensory Bin is a sensory bin with space figures, black rocks, yellow stars and a rice filler. A super simple sensory bin to set up for kids for a space theme.
The Star Sensory bin is a great space sensory bin. You have a mix of colored stars, black acrylic rocks and rice. Super easy to put together and use. It also works great as a shape sensory bin as well.
Space Water Bead Sensory Bin is a great sensory bin to explore different parts of space and the planets with water beads…and we love those water beads. And this is one of the most popular sensory bin on the site!
Kinetic Sand Space Moon Walking Sensory Bin is a great sensory bin for kids to play in. Kids can look at the space themes and enjoy ways they can play in the sensory bin.
Mars Sensory Bin with Kinetic Sand is a fun way to explore what it might be like to visit Mars! And it is a great bin to pull out at any time!
Check out all the fun Space Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
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