Button Sensory Bin for Easy Sensory Play
Buttons are great for sensory play and are super easy to find buttons for all year or even seasonal buttons.
This is a simple sensory bin for kids in prek and kindergarten. You can have fun digging through the buttons with all the different mix of button types that you can find.
This is a great sensory bin for scoping and pouring and learning colors and sizes. And super easy to set up with just buttons, bin, and scoops.
Button Sensory Bin is a great addition to the 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.
Button Sensory Bin
The button sensory bin is an easy 2 minute sensory bin. Easy to setup and play in. It does not take much time to collect everything. This is great for those that need something to do while you are cleaning or doing other activities.
You have a mix of random buttons or different sizes and colors. This button sensory bin is great for prek (ages 4 to 5) and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6). We do have some smaller buttons in the sensory bin.
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Book to Read with the Button Sensory Bin
You can read Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. It goes great with the button sensory bin. You can even use the buttons from the bin on the book as you read.
What you need for the Button Sensory Bin
You can see a version with the sensory scoops added in for sensory play below. There are four scoops but we only used four this time. But you might want to use them all. So keep that in mind.
As always make sure to watch kids while they are playing in a sensory bin.
How We Used the Button Sensory Bin
You will see a few ways we played in the button sensory bin. And remember that if all you so is play in the sensory bin that is okay!
Play in the Button Sensory Bin
Sensory play is always important and it should be play. It can be as simple are running hands through the buttons and picking up buttons from the bin. And let kids have fun free sensory play time. They need it.
Use Sensory Scoops in the Button Sensory Bin
We used sensory scoops in our sensory bin. These are great for scooping pouring and even sorting. And you can see how much fun they add. You could also add small cups as well.
They add an extra fun for sensory play. Plus these scoops work in different types of sensory bins.
Explore Colors of Buttons in the Button Sensory Bin
Buttons are a great way to explore colors. You can have kids dig through all the colors in the sensory bin and give one color.
We did a search for the color blue and put them in one of the sensory scoops. Then we search for more colors after that. Kids can pick out individual buttons and tell you the color. It is great for fine motor to pick out the different buttons
Explore the Size of Buttons in the Button Sensory Bin
The sensory bin has different size of buttons. And this is great to explore the different in size. We did a search for small buttons and then large buttons. You can compare how large some buttons are compared to others.
We put out buttons in the sensory scoop and filled up the scoop with each size. You can talk about how you need less large buttons compared to smaller buttons.
And remember to just Play in the Button Sensory Bin
Remember that this is a sensory bin and if all you do is play that is okay. Sensory bins should be full of fun. Just make sure that you are using the sensory bin that is best for you kids!
We have use this sensory bin several times over the years and it was great to use well into first grade or second grade.
Check Out these Easy To Make Sensory Bins For Kids
Rock Sensory Bin is full of rock of different colors with a black rock for a filler for the colored rocks.
Shape Button Sensory Bin is a fun way to work on shapes with kids. You can scopy and pour. You can look for the different shapes in the sensory bin.
Wood Bead Sensory Bin is a sensory bin filled with wood beads and great for fine motor play with a pipe cleaner for threading the beads.
The Rock and Rice Sensory bin is a simple sensory bin made with colorful rocks and has a rice filler. It is super easy to make and use with kids.
Ant & Kinetic Sand Sensory Bin is a favorite sensory bin on the site. The ant sensory bin is great for building ant hills, counting ants and more. It is perfect for spring. And it is super easy to set up.
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
This is brilliant – and I’m not just saying that because I have possibly the largest button collection in North America stashed in my sewing boxes! Pinning right now – thanks for sharing!
You are welcome. 🙂
My son made a shaker out of our corn sensory bin this week! He said he made it for me, though. That’s my sweet little guy! I really like all the colorful buttons. When I’ve done activities with buttons they have all been brown, black or clear (they came with the clothes).
It is really easy to find colorful buttons! I found them at various places AC Moore, Michael’s and Walmart.
Oh this looks like so much fun!! I don’t own any buttons though 🙁 I’ll have to buy some eventually! xx
It was fun for them and it is easy to find color button! I found them at various craft places: AC Moore, Michael’s and Walmart.