Spring Flower Sensory Bin with Water Beads

Celebrate spring with this fun water bead and flower sensory bin for kids! 

Have you played with water beads yet? They are seriously some of our favorite sensory materials!  The girls loved it when we got to cut and squish them on the light table and even just simple water bead play is always a hit here!  Since spring is heading our way I decided to use some colorful water beads and created a fun spring sensory garden for the kids to play with!

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Spring Flower Sensory Bin with Water Beads

This is a very simple sensory bin to put together and the whole thing cost me under $4 so it wasn’t very costly.  I even reuse the water beads and flowers other projects so that makes it even better! 

Materials:

• Water Beads
• Fake flowers (Dollar Tree)
• Small plastic planting pots (Dollar Tree)
• Tools for scooping
• Plastic container(s)

The time it takes for the water beads to expand is the longest part of this activity’s set up. Once they are ready, just ass the water beads to a tray with fake flowers, a small planting pot, and some tools for scooping and transferring. That’s it!

I set the spring sensory bin out on the table with a pot and some flowers in the bin and I added more next to the sensory box. 

As the girls got up from nap they ventured over and started creating their own flower arrangements in the pots. 

They each had their own special arrangements that they created. They sorted by colors at first and then a whole world of imaginative play took off!  My daycare girls said that some smelled like cupcakes, others were princess flowers, and there was even both a monster and a fairy garden!

There is so much pretend play potential with this flower sensory bin! My girls have used it several times, most of the time they have a flower shop and deliver arrangements to their friends! 

It’s a really good activity for developing fine motor skills. Scooping and sorting water beads are tricky and requires a lot of practice for little fingers.

My kids really like the feel of water beads. They are probably the most love sensory bin filler we have. If you haven’t tried them yet I highly recommend them for kids. I just make sure to use them with kids that are no longer putting everything in their mouth.

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