I always find that it’s easier to come up with creative sensory bins if I choose a theme. If you are a teacher or homeschooler, it is nice to have sensory play that corresponds to the current unit study. For these reasons, I’ve compiled a list of sensory bin themes.
It’s easier to spark your creativity when you have a head start. These sensory bin themes will give you the inspiration and ideas to create your own! You’ll find things for toddlers, preschoolers, and beyond.
You can find examples of sensory bins for each theme by clicking on the link.
Sensory Bin Themes:
Seasons
Science
Some of the animal sensory bins could work as science units also.
- Ant Life Cycle
- Blood (human body unit)
- Bugs
- Butterfly
- Butterfly Life Cycle
- Chicken Life Cycle
- Dinosaur
- Fossils
- Frog Life Cycle
- Going on a Bug Hunt
- Honey Bee Life Cycle
- Human Body
- Insects
- Magnets
- Moon and Space
- Ocean
- Rainbow
- Solar System
- Weather
Animals
Sensory Bins Based on Books
- Are you my Mother?
- Big Red Barn
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear
- Cat in the Hat
- Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
- Goodnight Construction Site
- Goodnight Moon
- Green Eggs and Ham
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- The Lorax
- One Duck Stuck
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Alphabet and Reading
- Alphabet
- Alphabet Ocean
- Family (Vocabulary)
- Learning Names
- Letter A
- Letter C
- Letter Dig
- Letter Matching Seashells
- Marshmallow Sight Words
- Spelling
- Spell Your Name
Social Studies
Math
Holidays
- New Year’s
- Valentine’s Day
- St. Patrick’s Day
- Easter
- Canada Day
- Fourth of July
- Halloween
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
Other Sensory Bin Themes
This list includes every theme you can imagine (and some you never would!) from A to Z.
- Airplanes
- Apples
- Autism Awareness
- Baby Bath
- Baking
- Beach
- Berry Picking
- Bird Nest
- Birdseed
- Birthday Cake
- Birthday Party
- Bunny
- Butterfly
- Calming Lavender
- Candy
- Citrus
- Coffee
- Construction
- Colour
- Desert
- Dishwashing
- Dollar Store
- Duck Pond
- Emotions (Inside Out)
- Fairies
- Farm
- Fish Tank
- Flowers
- Football
- Frozen
- Garden
- Harvest
- Hot Chocolate
- Ice Cream
- Iceberg
- I Spy
- Ladybug
- Lemon
- Lemonade
- Lemonade Stand
- Mermaid
- Mint
- Monsters
- Mud
- My Family (All About Me theme)
- Nature
- Night Sky
- Nutrition
- Paint
- Peas and Carrots
- Planting Trees
- Pompom
- Popcorn
- Pumpkin Patch
- Quarry
- Rubber Ducks
- Scarecrow
- Seaside
- Seek and Find
- Shapes
- Sky
- Snow
- Snowflake
- Snowman
- Spider
- Squirrel
- Starry Night (art inspired)
- Straight Lines
- Sunflower
- Tea Bag
- Tractor
- Train
- Transportation
- Unicorn
- Water
- Water beads
- Watermelon
- Wetlands
- Zoo
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