Ocean Rice and Rock Sensory Bin For Kids

The ocean is a great summer theme, and we love doing sensory activities with ocean animals. This ocean sensory bin takes just a minute to set up.

It has rice and rock sensory bin features, blue-colored rocks with ocean animals. It makes a great theme for kids in preschool, pre-K, and kindergarten.

You can use it in a sensory center or just as a fun addition to learning. It is an excellent idea for any ocean theme or World Ocean Day.

Ocean Rice and Rock Sensory Bin - a simple rice base sensory bin that has ocean animals and blue acrylic rocks in the bin. A simple sensory bin for any ocean theme - 3Dinosaurs.com

The Ocean Fish Rice & Rock Sensory Bin is a great addition to the ocean 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.

Ocean Fish Rice & Rock Sensory Bin

The ocean rice and rock sensory bin has ocean fish and other ocean themes with blue acrylic rocks. Rice is the filler for this ocean sensory bin. By using plain rice in the ocean sensory bin it takes only a minute to set up this sensory bin with the easy items.

This ocean sensory bin is perfect for any ocean-themed activity you may be planning. This ocean animal sensory bin is great for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), PreK (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).

Book to Read with Ocean Sensory Bin

Commotion in the Ocean is a favorite book for us. We love reading the book. The poems are fun and there are so many great ocean animals in the book.

What we used to make the Ocean Fish Rice & Rock Sensory Bin

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Coral Reef Toob
Ocean Toob
Turquoise Acrylic Ice Rocks
rice – we use white rice in sensory bins
paper bin with lid

Always remember that younger kids need super vision when using a sensory bin.

Ways to Use the Ocean Fish Rice & Rock Sensory Bin

You will see ideas how to use the simple ocean sensory bin and fun idea for play and learning.

Play in the Ocean Sensory Bin

Sensory bins are should always be something for sensory play. And if you only play in the sensory bin then that is what you do. Kids will love just exploring the sensory bins.

And these sensory bins are great to leave out during the time you do an ocean theme with kids. And this is great for world ocean day as well.

We love to scoop and pour the the handfuls back into the sensory bin. Do you have a favorite way to play a sensory bin?

Sort Rocks and Ocean Animals

Sorting is a fun activity you can do. You have the blue rocks and the ocean animals. And you can sort the animals and rocks.

You can sort inside the sensory bin or you could pull them out of the sensory bin.

Either way works and is fun to do. You can also color the lead of the kids. You can tell them what to do and see how they decide to do it.

Sort Similar Ocean Animals

Another fun sorting activity is with the ocean animals. You can sort them by type. You can talk to kids about the different animals with sharks vs fish.

You can talk about the group of the ocean animals after you are doing sorting them. You could add in ocean books about fish as well.

You could also sort out the coral reef animals vs other ocean animals.

Ocean Books to check out

Letter & Shapes in the Sensory Bin

A fun activity to add into sensory bin is letters, numbers and shapes. You can say a letter and have kids make it form the rocks or ocean animals.

You can give them letter cards or number cards (and these are a fun shark theme) to help as well.

And remember to play!

A final reminder that even if you don’t so anything with the ocean sensory bin but play in it. That is totally okay.

We use ours a lot for calming down and self regulation. And also don’t limit sensory bins to just kids in preschool and prek. Older kids can use them as well.

More Ocean Sensory Bin Activities for Kids

Ocean Sensory Bin is a fun hands-on sensory learning. This is a fun way to learn about the fish and have sensory at the same time. This is a fun sensory bin with beans that you can use with kids.

Looking for a fun sensory bin? Check out this Ocean Water Bead Sensory Bin. We have a blast with this one and have done it many times.

Look for shell and beach animals in this Beach Sensory Bin. This sensory bin has crabs, kinetic sand and shells for the bin. Super easy to use plus can bet set up in no time to use with preschool age kids.

You can mix things up and do a Prehistoric Sea Life Water Bead Sensory Bin. This is a great sensory bin to look at the animals that were in the ocean during the time of the dinosaurs.

The Shark Water Bead Sensory Bin has been a favorite at our house! We love to do it. Plus it is great for Shark week every year!

Check out all the fun Ocean & Beach Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.