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\n<\/div>\nThe Blue and Green Sensory Bin is a great addition to the Earth Day 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 This blue and green sensory bin is quick and easy to put together. The base of the sensory bin is rice. Then you have green and blue acrylic rocks mixed in the rice.<\/p>\n This is a great color sensory bin for Earth Day.<\/p>\n We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n A great book to read is Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years<\/a>. 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<\/a> that is also another great Earth Book. Both are great to read with kids and learn more fact and information about our planet.<\/p>\n You could also add cups, scoops<\/a> or sensory toys<\/a> if you want.<\/p>\n Here are a few simple ways to lay in the blue and green sensory bin.<\/p>\n You can always just lay in the sensory bin. You can run hands through the rice and the colored rocks and just have fun.<\/p>\n The general ideas of sensory bins are for sensory play and you can do just that with these easy sensory bins.<\/p>\n You can use your hands to scoop up the rice and rocks and pour it back into the bin. This is really fun sensory bin and yes it can get messy. You can put a blanket under the bin to collect the rice easlier.<\/p>\n You can pour the rice and rocks right back into the sensory bin. And it fun to hear the rice and rocks hit each other as they are poured back into the bin.<\/p>\n And it is fun so why not do it again.<\/p>\n A fun activity is sorting the green and blue rocks in the sensory bin. You can put them on different sides of the bin.<\/p>\n While sorting you can talk about some of these questions: After you have the rock colors sorting you have space for older kids to do a few hands-on activities with the rocks. You can make patterns with them. So use the rock and make a few simple patterns with kids.<\/p>\n Here are some pattern ideas: Or any other patterns you want to make.<\/p>\n You can also take the rocks and make a few letters. You can see we did a pattern for the letter and that is fun for older kids and younger kids might use just one letter.<\/p>\n You can also take a pencil and trace a line in the rice for them to place the rocks on for the letter.<\/p>\n But remember that just playing is fun too without anything else you might do. And kids can use this bin over and over to play in.<\/p>\n Earth Day Themed Gross Motor Dice<\/a> has 6 fun Earth Day themes for kids to do gross motor with.<\/p>\n Earth Fine Motor Mats<\/a> has an earth to color, Earth to q-tip Paint and Earth to trace. All great for Earth day or an Earth theme.<\/p>\n Easy To Make Finger Painted Planet Earth<\/a> is a fun painting project for Earth Day. You have a great Earth painting that is fun to do.<\/p>\n Paper Roll Stamped Earth<\/a> was a great project using paper rolls. Super fun and creative way to make an earth<\/p>\n Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities<\/a> on 3 Dinosaurs.<\/p>\n Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The blue and green sensory bin is a simple Earth Day sensory bin that uses the colors of the Earth. It only takes a few seconds to put this rice based sensory bin together. You can mix, sort, and play in the sensory bin. 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is a sensory bin?<\/h2>\n
Blue and Green Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
Earth Book to Read with the Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
\n![\"Earth!](\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/earth-my-first-billion-years-book-300x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\nMy](\"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/my-first-earth-book-300x300.jpg\")
<\/p>\nWhat we used to make the Blue and Green Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
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![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin1.jpg\")
<\/div>\nWays to Use the Blue and Green Sensory Bin<\/h2>\n
Play in the Sensory Bin<\/h3>\n
![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin2.jpg\")
<\/div>\nScoop and Pour with Hands<\/h3>\n
![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin3.jpg\")
<\/div>\n![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin4.jpg\")
<\/div>\nSorting the Green and Blue Colors<\/h3>\n
\n– What is green on the Earth?
\n– What is blue on the Earth?
\n– Where would you go to see these colors?
\n– Do you like either of these colors?<\/p>\n![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin5.jpg\")
<\/div>\nMaking Patterns with Blue and Green Rocks<\/h3>\n
\nAB: Blue green
\nBBA: Green green blue
\nBA: green blue
\nAAB: Blue blue green
\nAABB pattern: blue blue green green<\/p>\n![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin6.jpg\")
<\/div>\nMaking Letters With the Rocks<\/h3>\n
![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin7.jpg\")
<\/div>\nAnd just play in the Sensory Bin<\/h3>\n
![\"Blue](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2024\/blue-green-sensory-bin8.jpg\")
<\/div>\nMore Earth Day Activities for Kids<\/h2>\n
![\"Sensory](\"\/images\/blog\/4-2023\/sensory-bin-activities.jpg\")
<\/a><\/div>\n