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<\/p>\n<\/div>\nThe Water Bead Bug Sensory Bin is a great addition to the bug activities<\/a> and sensory bins<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Sensory bins might have rice, water beads, corn, beans, or other types filled with small items.<\/p>\n To make the bin I pulled out all the bug figures we had. I had some older toobs and newer ones as well. This is a great way to reuse things. We use some of these in a first bug sensory bin<\/a>.<\/p>\n One fun bug book to go with this bin is: The Icky Bug Alphabet Book<\/a>. I love having different ABC books to use. I love just watching my girls pay in the bin. I also love the play in the bins as well. They are always creative in how they play and what they do.<\/p>\n They love pushing the beads and bugs around in the bin. Plus naming all the different bugs they see.<\/p>\n I had fun giving them the challenge to put their hands in and scoop up matching themes for the bugs or to just one bug at a time. <\/p>\n This is fun because they move their hands around in the beads and get loads of touch and feel with this. We had an ant theme and a butterfly theme that they had the most fun with.<\/p>\n Because we had two different sets some of them were similar and different. I had them pick out bugs that were similar and see just how similar they were.<\/p>\n They played a fun game of getting the bugs out of the bin and have them balanced on your hands and not have any water beads. This was loads of fun for them. It took some skill to get the bugs all lined up to take out of the water beads.<\/p>\n Another great activity they did was sorting the bugs in the bin by those that could fly and those that could not. We had a long talk about why they were certain about which bugs could not. 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is a sensory bin?<\/h2>\n
Bug Water Bead Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
Bug Book to Read With the Bug Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWhat we used to make the Bug Water Bead Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\n<\/div>\nWays to Use the Bug Water Bead Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/div>\nCheck out these other bug and insect activities<\/h2>\n
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