This fun snowman sensory box is so much fun!
It’s Christmastime and for us, that means lots of Christmas books and activities. For this activity, we’ve joined up with 20+ other bloggers as part of the Christmas Read & Play Series to create fun Christmas themed activities that are inspired by our favorite Christmas books! Check out our sensory bin based on our most favorite Christmas book below!
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Snowmen at Christmas: Read & Play
Have you read Snowmen at Christmas by Caralyn Buehner yet? If not you have to pick it up! We chose this book for our Read & Play activity because it’s such a great book to read this time of year! This is one of our favorite Christmas books! The story is cute and fun and the illustrations are adorable! My daughter loves the illustrations and story so much that we’ve been reading it all year long.
Need a winter-themed book to connect with this snowman sensory box? We also love to read Caralyn Buehner’s other book, Snowmen at Night, and pair it with this activity when Christmas is over
To extend our play and create an activity to go along with this book I made this simple snowman sensory box for the girls to play with! It’s a fun fine motor sensory activity that fits perfectly with any winter or Christmas theme!
Snowman Sensory Box for Kids
Materials Used:
- Insta-Snow
- Snowmen Cookie Cutters ($2 at Walmart)
- Beads
- Snowflake Table Scatter (Walmart)
- Snowmen/Santa figures ($1 at Walmart for a set of 6, they are actually novelty pencil toppers)
This winter sensory bin is so easy to make! Just make up some Insta-Snow(tip: use cold water to make it feel like cold snow!), add some snowman cookie cutters, and then throw in a few small items to make a snowman face with. I also threw in some small snowman figurines and plastic snowflakes, all from the dollar section in my Walmart’s holiday department.
The girls used the beads and the cookie cutters to make create their own snowmen in our sensory bin.
The kids had a “party” with Santa and the snowman figures just like the snowmen in the book.
The Insta-Snow is so much fun to play and build in! They built their own snowmen, snow caves, and mountains.
Plus they made it snow on Santa and the snowmen!
It’s so simple but provides hours of hands-on exploration and play. My daycare kids had so much fun with this. The stories they created were so imaginative and creative. This may be one of my favorite sensory bins for Christmas and winter! It’s easy to adapt to both themes and you can use simple items that don’t cost much!
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I just love that Insta-Snow – we haven’t tried it but now I want to!
Love this! We live in Minnesota and have plenty of snow but playing outside is a large motor activity. I love the fine motor practice with this nice indoors activity for when the weather is too brutal. Thank you!
Love the snowman making inside the cookie cutters.
Such a great book! Love what you did with the sensory bin!
Love your sensory bin! I am always looking for fun ideas to use with my littles. Snowmen at Night is an absolute favorite story of mine to read and talk about with my speech therapy students. I stopped by your blog to pin this post, and then read your bio… WOW! Fun coincidence! My name is also Lisette (and I don’t meet many name twins 🙂 When my own children were little, I also ran a small daycare, now I play and teach groups of preschoolers speech and language skills and blog. So nice to (virtually) meet you!