Sensory activities for preschoolers

The benefits of sensory play are undeniable and the sensory bin is often one of the most popular learning centers in a preschool classroom. Whether you have students with food allergies, policies against using food in sensory play, or just want something that you can use year after year, try these non-food sensory bin ideas for some amazing hands-on, sensory fun and learning in your preschool classroom. Students get to work on fine-motor skills, oral language, and vocabulary development.

Discover pond sensory bins to go with the flow! From sensory bins to play dough invitations, these hands-on pond activities are great for preschool!

Soap foam is such a fun and easy sensory play recipe to mix up. It can be whizzed up in minutes using only 2 ingredients, water and washing up liquid (dish soap), and it feels so soft and fun to play with. Soap foam can be made in any colour of the rainbow by adding a little food colouring. Playing with soap foam is such a fun sensory play experience for toddlers and preschoolers (and big kids too!) that is suitable for both outdoor or indoor sensory play.

In the classroom, we want students to have various writing tools and surfaces to practice writing letters and numbers. Students need repeated, engaging, and varied exposure and practice with letters. If we make writing fun and engaging, they will fall in love with writing and letters! If we make it boring with worksheets, they will hate writing and dread it.

Winter is almost here and there has never been a more perfect time for this pretend snow.

A fun way to get your little ones more comfortable with writing, this Sensory Writing Tray is perfect if you want to familiarise young children with letters and numbers. Kids love this sensory experience so much that they will be begging to do some handwriting practice!

Easy ice painting bin for preschoolers to explore colors on ice during a winter, snow, or arctic animal theme in the classroom or home preschool!

A super quick easy cloud dough sensory bin recipe for hands-on learning and fun in your preschool, pre-k, or kindergarten classroom.

This post shares 14 different hands-on, engaging activity ideas for toddlers and preschoolers all with a colorful rainbow theme. Activities include simple art projects, sensory play inspiration, and fine motor skill building. A list of rainbow and color-themed books are recommended to go along with

Snowball Rescue Sensory Bin is a great fine motor winter activity for toddlers and preschoolers. Rescue the snowballs in this easy activity!