Christmas Tree Rice Sensory Bin
This Christmas Tree Rice Sensory Bin is a super simple and easy last minute Christmas Sensory bin. Kids will have fun playing with the rice and Christmas trees.
They can scoop, pour and have fun with sensory play. It is easy to set up this Christmas sensory bin in less than a minute.
Easy sensory bins are fun for kids. This is great for kids in prek, kindergarten, and some older kids as well.
The Christmas Tree Sensory Bin is a great addition to the Christmas 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.
Christmas Tree Sensory Bin
This Christmas tree Rice Sensory bin has a rice filler with three colors of evergreen trees. The trees are red, green and clear. Three colors of the trees make this a fun Christmas sensory bin.
Christmas Tree Books to Read with the Christmas Tree Sensory Bin
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree by Robert Barry is a favorite for us. We read it a lot and it works great for so many Christmas tree themes and crafts
The second book we used is Pick a Pine Tree by Patricia Toht. It is a great story about picking a pine tree and how much fun it is. And it shows so many people looking for Christmas Trees.
What we used to make the Christmas Tree Sensory Bin
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Ways to Use the Christmas Tree Sensory Bin
You are going to see a few ways to use the Christmas Tree Rice Sensory bin.
Play in the Sensory Bin
Sensory bins are for sensory play. So if all you do is play in this Christmas tree rice sensory bin, then that is totally fine. Let kids explore the different textures between the trees and the rice.
They can hear the sound the rice makes as it hits the trees in the sensory bin. And can play in the sensory bin with or without sensory toys in the bin.
Standing up the Christmas Trees in the Rice
A fun activity with the evergreen trees is to stand them up in the rice. It makes a great fine motor activity to pick up each tree and place it in the rice.
Sort The Evergreen Trees by Color
You can sort the the evergreen trees by color. This is a great find motor activity to find and sort the trees. You work on picking up small trees and builds fine motor skills for kids.
Make Letters, Numbers, & Shapes with the Evergreen Trees
You can also have fun making letters, numbers and shapes with the trees in the rice. You can tell them the letter to make. Then they use the trees to make the letters on the top of the rice.
As Always Just Play in the Sensory Bin
Remember that is all you do is play in this sensory bin that is okay. Sensory bin is really important and useful to a lot of kids. And also remember that you can have older kids play in sensory bins.
You can also check out how we use these trees in a Christmas Tree kinetic Sand Sensory Bin.
More Christmas Activities for Kids
Nativity Sensory Bin is a fun way to explore the nativity story with figures form the story with sensory play that a lot of kids love.
Christmas Tree & Kinetic Sand Sensory Bin has red, green and clean evergreen trees in a kinetic sand sensory bin. A great Christmas themed sensory bin for kids.
Christmas Lights Water Bead Sensory Bin is one that kids just love to dig around in! You can search for different colors of lights or just play in the sensory bin.
Christmas Light Sensory Bin was so much fun to dig around in. You have a mix of lights and yarn for the sensory bin.
Christmas Button Sensory Bin is a fun rice and button sensory bin. You can search for different colors of green, red and white in the sensory bin.
Check out all the fun Christmas Printables & Christmas Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dionsaurs.com