St.Patrick’s Day Lucky Green Sensory Bin

St.Patrick’s Day Lucky Green Sensory Bin

This is a fun easy to do sensory play activity that is great for the St. Patrick’s Day holiday or can be done with any color to help encourage color recognition. A rainbow of sugar would be pretty and would entice any toddler or preschooler to dig into sensory play.

What you need:

Sugar
White Rice
Macaroni Noodles
Green Food Coloring
Scoops, Spoons, Cups…

Untitled design (2)

Step One:

Dyeing sugar is quite simple and can be used for many projects or recipes. All you do is put your sugar in a bowl or pan. Drop food coloring in the sugar all around and stir quickly. Use a spoon and squish the darker spots mixing them with the lighter spots till an even color is formed. You can’t let it sit for long before you stir or the color won’t take as easily.

DSC_0785

The colored sugar alone is fun to play with. It smells nice and looks pretty. They can play in it like sand, use their fingers to practice letter writing, or use it as a cause and effect lesson ( such as if I pour this in the top of this, this will happen)…

DSC_0803

Step Two:

Give the children scoops, spoons, or cups. Filling and dumping is a great motor skill building activity and kids LOVE to practice it.

 

DSC_0807

Step Three:

Dyeing Rice is also very simple. I have done this before with great results but I used vinegar to help with the color process but we all hated the smell. This time I did not use the vinegar which caused a more uneven color but still they are green. It was a much more pleasant play experience with no dry time. All I did was put the rice in a bowl drop the liquid food coloring in and stir. You can also put it in a baggy and add the coloring and allow the kids to bounce around with it.

I did two different colors of green rice. One was dark and one was neon green.

DSC_0838

Step Four:

Add the rice to your sugar… FUN!

DSC_0843 DSC_0852

Another fun addition is silicone baking cups. The kids love to “make” and decorate cupcakes!

DSC_0856 DSC_0860

Step Five:

For more fun add some dyed macaroni noodles. I dyed these the same way as the rice. Add your liquid food coloring and stir. They do require some dry time. I left these over night and stirred two times during their drying time to separate the noodles.

DSC_0849

My daughter played for an hour with this and has asked to play with it again since we took these pictures!

 

Suggestions, requests, questions, or comments?
Email: miniaturemasterminds@gmail.com

Lucky Green Sensory Bin

All activity images, printables, and games are free to download and/or use as you choose, with the exception of claiming as your own, modifying, or redistributing as your own. Feel free to link to this page but not to the download or image itself, if you would like to share downloads or ideas. All shares are appreciated. Permission to use 1 image of your choice is given. Thank you for respecting these guidelines.

AD




About Us:

660417

Welcome to Miniature Masterminds!

  • Here you will find free printables for your classroom, activities, and more!
  • Check out our growing collection of full year curriculum packs or our many other fun printables. You can find thousands of different printable activities, worksheets, and helpers!

We are Christian based and all curriculum and activities will fit a Biblical perspective. However, most of it can also be used in a secular classroom as well. 

Quick Links

Our First Book For Purchase in Print!

%d