EARTH DAY
SENSORY BINS
By Ashlee Steward
Taking care of our environment, conserving energy and water and learning
about pollution should be ongoing topics during play opportunities. On the
22nd April 2018 the world will celebrate Earth Day. Why not try and create an
earth day sensory bin?
You can create them as you wish, but you could make one to focus on sorting
waste; if you wanted you could add shredded blue paper to represent “water”
and talk about the oceans and pollution (depending on the age of the
children).
TO MAKE THIS BIN, YOU WILL NEED:
• Shredded blue paper (alternatively you could use blue rice)
• Some marine type toy boats and animals (you could use boats and
sea animals)
• 3 containers for waste with labels for trash, compost, and recycling
• 12 large metal paper clips
• Printout of 12 pieces of garbage (see the next page for your FREE
printable copy)
• A “fishing pole” with a magnet on the end (you can make this with a
pencil and string)