Football Sensory Bin For Kids

Sensory bins are great for kids that need sensory play. And you can enjoy this fun sensory play with a football theme.

And you can see ideas how to use it. Plus a few ideas to set up sensory bin with your favorite team colors.

A great football activity you can use with kids in prek and kindergarten.

Football Sensory Bin - a simple football sensory bin for kids. You have a mix of green rocks, rice and footballs - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Football Sensory Bin is a great addition to the football 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.

Football Sensory Bin

The football sensory bin is a simple and easy bin to set up with just green rocks for the field, footballs, and rice.

You can set this sensory bin up easily and enjoy it right away. And we have used the rocks in the sensory bins a few times.

What we used to make the Football Sensory Bin

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Ways to Use the Football Sensory Bin

You are going to see a few ways to use this football sensory bin. And just remember these are ideas.

Play in Sensory Bin

The first thing to remember about sensory bins is that they are for sensory play. And lots of kids need this sensory play.

So if all kids want to do is play in the sensory bin that is okay. And let play as much as they want.

Sort Green Rocks and Footballs

A fun hands-on activity is sorting footballs and green rocks. They can use the two sides of the sensory bin for the sorting.

They don’t have to sort all the parts just enough to see the differences. And picking up the small items with fingers is great for fine motor work.

Make Letters or Numbers with Footballs

You can have fun making letters or ever numbers in the sensory bin. It is fun to see kids build letters in the sensory bin. If they need help with the letters they are building they can use the football letter puzzles for the letters.

And Remember To Play in the Football Sensory Bin

Now as always this sensory bin is meant to be played in. And kids should have fun playin in the bin. You can added cups and other sensory scoops as well.

They will have fun play in the sensory bin.

Setting up Football Sensory Bins by Team Colors

Now you can set up this sensory bin with your favorite teams colors as well.

All you need to do is mix up the rocks that you use with the footballs and rice.

Rock Colors You Can Get

We use these acrylic rocks for sensory bins all year and they make it easy to change a sensory bin for our favorite football themes as well.

Now look below and see how easy it is to make a favorite team sensory bin. I’m going to show you a few color options for a few football team colors.

You can see a blue and red team colors below.

Or maybe you are doing a red and gold for a team.

You can see a red and black team below.

Maybe you have a gold and blue team.

You can see how simple it is to make the sensory bin for your favorite time colors. And these are simple to set up for kids as well. You can do professional football teams and college team colors.

More Football Activities for Kids

Football Wreath Craft is great for the football season or the Super Bowl. You can make this craft with a few items and enjoy displaying it during the game.

Football Gross Motor Dice is a great gross motor and brain break movements for kids to do.

Football Cookie Cutter Watercolor Painting is a great football craft that you can do with kids. You can paint footballs, helmet and jersey in colors to make your favorite team.

Football Fine Motor Mats has a football template, football dot marker printable, tracing football for kids to do little fine motor work with a football theme.

Football Activity Pack: Prewriting, ABCs, Numbers & Shapes is a great set of printables that work on different activities with the same theme. You will find no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards, and tracing strips with 189 pages of printables.

Check out all the fun Sensory Bin Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.