Easter Sensory Tub – BLUEBELL MONTESSORI – Montessori Pre School

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Easter Sensory Tub

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Post published:April 7, 2014
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Our Easter Sensory Tub 🙂

I use green rice for a ‘grass’ base and added different sized eggs, feathers, big and small chicks, small spoons and baskets.

The learning intentions behind the activity were:

To encourage the use of size related vocabulary
To strengthen hand and arm muscles / small motor skills (opening the eggs)
To provide opportunities for filling and emptying (mainly the 1 year old but I know the other children enjoy this too)
To explore the different textures and introduce appropriate vocabulary.
To count 1,2 and 3 objects

There were also opportunities for colour recognition and exploring capacity

Well it’s been really popular all week!

As well as what I hope the children will get out of the activity, they also have the opportunity to explore their own interests.

K was fascinated with opening all the eggs to discover what was inside.

(I had pre-filled some of them with chicks and rice)

He sat and opened every single egg!

Now that is concentration.

Discovering rice….

…and then another egg. I managed to find 3 different sized egg that I could nest inside one another.

After K had taken them apart, he tried to fit them back together!

As predicted the children enjoyed filling the eggs with rice.

R was also fascinated by the feathers.

She found she could fit them in the small holes in the base of the eggs.

This took ALOT of concentration and perseverance!

R has also been very interested in the fans that I added to our investigation basket about a week ago.

She brought them to the table and incorporated them in her exploration.

First she held them fans so the blew against her face…..

and then she explored, discovering that she could use the fan to blow the feathers.

This fascinated her and she spent a long time watching the feathers blowing.

R also enjoyed discovering what was hidden in the eggs 🙂

Trying to put them back together.

Exploring the feel – don’t think she liked it!

Child-initiated tidying up 🙂