Recycled Materials Sensory Tub

You may have seen our sensory tub in a previous post.  I have been adding a few recycled items in it, and we have been having fun with them.  Children enjoy interacting with different size boxes and tubs and many concepts can be taught with them.  I have been adding different tubs, boxes and lids.

What we have in our sensory box right now:

paper tubes
toothpastes boxes
milk lids
peanut butter lids
yogurt lids
pom pom balls
colored popsicle sticks
ice cream cups
baggie box

I need to add some of our snakes and frogs.
  

Sensory Tub With a Slide

We really don't play with sensory tubs enough.  I love them and Adeline really enjoys them I just don't feel like I have the materials on hand.  Today I took what I had and it was great Adeline really enjoyed it.  She even started putting to words together like "red ball".  She has heard me say it sooo many times she did it.  I was excited.


I put in our tub, pompom balls, colored popsicle sticks, tp tubs, and some bugs I found at the Dollar Tree last year.  I think you can still find them.

There is so much you can talk about using a sensory tub.  We talked about "in and out",  "red ball, yellow stick", and the "bugs and butterflies".

I taped a paper towel tub to the side.  This was fun.  We put things "in and out".

We set up tubs and put things "in".

  
We played with this for quite awhile.  I think I will leave this out for the day since we enjoyed it so much.

Thanksgiving Fun

Today we had some fun learning about some of the things we see in the fall and during the Thanksgiving season.  I have been doing some reading about some of the Montessori  methods and I feel like they work so well with what we are trying to do with Adeline.  I will be incorporating more of these things into our day.

One important aspect is teaching our children how to use everyday tools.  Today we put together a sensory box of fall items and Adeline practiced using a tong, and ladle.  The tong was a little more difficult but she really enjoyed using the ladle.  This exercise requires a lot of turning the wrist and arm, all important skills.   Her favorite were the pumpkins that I found on clearance at Wal mart.

One on one correspondence with pumpkins.