Okay friends, it is sensory Saturday over here! This week, we are making this quick and easy as it gets closer to the holidays. We are taking all those holiday wrapping scraps and throwing them into a sensory bin. That’s it, it is that simple. Take that extra sliver of wrapping paper and throw it into a holiday sensory bin.
Easy Holiday Sensory Bin
This is one of those quick and simple set ups and during the holiday season, we could all use a little more simple in our life. I just grab the shreds of paper that I have to cut off while I am wrapping and throw them into a cardboard box as I am wrapping. Once we reach a certain time frame where most of the wrapping is done, I throw it all into our sensory bin.
Ways to Encourage Play
This is a bin that I could see some confusion as to what the children should do. It has depended on the year and my kid but they have played in so many different ways.
- Encourage them to find items around the house and practice wrapping
- Provide them with tape, kid safe scissors, and paper and pen for tags
- Encourage fine motor skills
- Provide them with scissors and paper punches
- Let them practice cutting, shredding, punching to their hearts content
- Work on pattern making
- With an assortment of different paper, have them create patterns or even let them make some designs
- Create a mosaic
- Provide them with scissors and glue, let them create some fun shapes and designs.
- Practice shapes
- This can be done in a collection of ways, have them sort the scraps as they are or allow them to cut and create shapes all on their own
- Make colorful paper snowflakes
- This is geared towards older children but allow them to fold up the paper and create some paper snowflakes
- Even let them hang them around the craft space
