Patriotic Sensory Bin Lesson Plan

Patriotic Sensory Bin

Lesson Plan:

Activity:

Patriotic Sensory Bin

Lesson plan developed by Ms. Erika Geelhoed, BA Ed

Age Group:

Toddlers

* Lesson plan objective and assessment can be adapted to use this activity with preschoolers.

Objectives:

Children will:

develop their sense of touch by experiencing new textures.
increase sensory motor skills.

Patriotic Sensory Bin

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CDA Competency Standard:

II.4.3a

Activities and materials encourage children to develop their senses
- a) Sight, sound, smell, taste and touch experiences are encouraged through a variety of developmentally appropriate materials and activities

Materials:

tinsel (red, blue and silver)
pom poms
small flags
patriotic necklaces
tools for scooping and collecting
large bin

Procedure:

Place all the items into the bin and place it in an appropriate area.
Invite children to join you in play.
Talk with them about the different textures they are experiencing.
By giving a name a description to the various textures, you are helping to build vocabulary and promote language development.

Assessment:

Observe and record the children’s reaction to the new textures. Where there certain items that they seemed to enjoy more? How are their fine motor skills developing? Did they practice scooping and pouring?

Note: Please provide appropriate supervision to the children in your care when completing all activities. You will need to decide what types of activities are safe for the children in your care. Appropriate and reasonable caution should be used when providing art and sensory experiences for children. Toddlers require special caution, only use non-toxic materials, and do not allow toddlers to put things in their mouths that are a choking hazard.

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Sensory play is messy.

It means water, paint, and glue on the floor or sand tracked through the classroom. However, that is the adults’ problem, not the children’s!

Examine your own tolerance for messiness, and weigh it against the learning opportunities for children. Remember that cleaning up sensory-material messes provides opportunities for creative problem-solving with materials. Enlist the children’s ideas both for how to keep messes to a minimum and how to clean up messes when they do occur.