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Fill an Ornament Christmas Sensory Bag

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Not only is this Christmas sensory bag a great sensory activity, it is also an excellent fine motor activity. Kids can push the sequins into the area to fill the ornament.

Fill the Ornament Christmas Sensory Bag sensory and fine motor activity #finemotor #Christmassensory #sensoryplay #holidayactivities #kidsactivities #sensorybagThis cute activity can be taken with you for use as a busy bag. It can be taken in the vehicle or used in waiting rooms. If you’re going to take it out and about, it’s definitely best to seal the edges with duct tape. Using a holiday themed duct tape makes it extra cute.

Fill the Ornament Christmas Sensory Bag:

  • sandwich or medium sized resealable bag (I like the medium freezer bags)
  • clear hand sanitizer
  • sequins and/or mini ornaments
  • permanent marker
  • optional: duct tape (way more fun if you use holiday themed duct tape)

  1. With a permanent marker, draw an ornament shape on a resealable bag.
  2. Fill the bag slightly less than halfway with hand sanitizer. Add a healthy amount of sequins or mini ornaments in holiday colours to the bag.
  3. Remove as much air as you can from the bag.
  4. Seal.
  5. If you’re going to be using this with younger children or are worried about a potential mess, fold duct tape over the edges of the bag. You can get all kinds of fun holiday printed tapes to use that will make this look even more festive.

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The child can now “fill” the ornament by moving the sequins with their finger on the outside of the bag.

You can make multiples of these Christmas sensory bags and use different colours of sequins or small ornaments. The kids can race to see how quickly they can fill the ornament.

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Check out some of our other Christmas themed sensory bags:

I-Spy Christmas sensory bag 

Simple Christmas sensory bag This simple Christmas Sensory Bag makes a delightful

Christmas ornaments sensory bag 

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Easy Fall Sensory Bag

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I love the colours of autumn. I wanted to bring that into this activity. With just a few items, you can create a simple Fall sensory bag. This is great for a sensory station or easy busy bag.

This Fall sensory bag is as simple as it gets. #sensoryplay #sensorybagsSensory bags engage the senses while containing the mess.

Of course, if you have little ones, you’ll want to seal the bag and make sure that they don’t put it in their mouths. To seal the bag, simple fold duct tape over all the edges. You can use duct tape in fall patterns or fun colours.

How to make a Fall Sensory Bag:

  • foam acorn shapes
  • confetti leaves
  • hand sanitizer
  • resealable plastic bag
  • glitter (optional)
  • duct tape (optional)

Place two or three of the foam shapes in a medium sized or sandwich sized resealable bag. Add in the confetti leaves. Squeeze some hand sanitizer into the bag and begin to seal. Remove as much excess air as you can and completely seal the bag. If you’re using the sensory bag with babies, toddlers, or preschoolers, I recommend sealing the bag with duct tape. Fold duct tape over all sides of the bag. You can find all kinds of fun coordinating prints and colours.

Some of the foam shapes we used had glitter on them, so I didn’t feel it necessary to add glitter to our sensory bag, but you could add in some glitter in gold or brown.

We also made a Fall Sensory Bottle and a Fall Sensory Bin to play with.

Check out some of our other sensory bags for kids:

Squishy Sky Sensory Bag

Christmas Sensory Bag

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American Girls Doll Sensory Bag

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If you have kids who love American Girls, this American Girls Doll Sensory Bag is an easy sensory activity to make for them.

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I found a few American Girls mini figures on sale at the pharmacy recently (a strange place to find materials for sensory play!) and bought them in order to make a sensory bag and sensory bottle with them. I knew my girls would be excited.

Materials needed:

  • resealable plastic bag
  • liquid hand soap (I used a grapefruit one because it had a slight pink tint to it which I thought went well with the theme)
  • American Girls doll mini figures
  • rhinestones
  • optional: duct tape

To make this American Girls Sensory Bag, all you need to do is fill a plastic bag about half full of the liquid hand soap or hand sanitizer, add the rhinestones and American Girls mini figures, remove the excess air, and seal. It’s so simple.

If you want, you can ensure a better seal by using duct tape on all the sides of the sensory bag. As with any sensory activity, children should be supervised while playing. 

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Unicorn Sensory Bag

Trolls Sensory Bag

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Simple Christmas Sensory Bag

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This simple Christmas sensory bag was literally made with items from my craft bin. My daughter wanted a holiday themed sensory bag to include in her Christmas Calm Down Kit. I grabbed a medium sized resealable bag, threw in some things from the craft box, sealed it, and gave it to my daughter. It was so easy to make.

This simple Christmas Sensory Bag makes a delightful scrunching sound when squished. #sensorybag #sensoryactivities #sensoryWhat I like about this particular sensory bag is that it makes a scrunchy sound when you squish it. It also has a few different textures in the bag so it offers tactile, visual and auditory sensory experiences.

Simple Christmas Sensory Bag:

Materials needed:

  • medium sized resealable bag
  • Christmas coloured crinkly paper shreds
  • green sparkly pompoms
  • felt snowflakes

To assemble this Christmas sensory bag, open the resealable bag, fill it half to three quarters full with the coloured paper shreds and then add the other items. Remove the excess air from the bag and seal.

You could also add jingle bells, Christmas foam shapes, dry rice, red and green beads, pieces of holiday coloured pipe cleaner, scraps of tissue paper, or holiday confetti shapes. This is one of those projects where you can just rummage through your craft supplies and add anything.Depending on the age and ability of the child who is using this, you may want to use duct tape to firm up the seal so that they can’t open it and pull out the contents which could be choking hazards for younger kids. You can finds all kinds of Christmasy duct tape to make it look more festive. Of course, as with all sensory activities, adult supervision should be used.

Get 175 sensory activity ideas in convenient printable lists which are ideal for using in the home, classroom or in a therapeutic setting.

Christmas Ornaments Sensory Bag

I-Spy Christmas Sensory Bag

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Trolls Sensory Bag

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When I was younger, I had a collection of Troll dolls. My collection stemmed from a single troll doll my mom had kept from when she was a little girl. It had long grey hair, about twice the length of the small doll’s body. The hair wasn’t fluffy or fuzzy like the trolls that came later. I kept my troll doll collection until I was in College.  Trolls sensory bag - easy to makeIt was amusing for me when the Trolls fad came around again now that I’m raising my own kids. When they made the Trolls movie, it brought back memories of my troll doll collection. I wish I had held onto some of those dolls for my kids. Though I may not still have my troll dolls to pass down to my daughters, I was able to make them this simple Trolls Sensory Bag for them to play with.

Trolls Sensory Bag

Materials needed:

  • resealable plastic bag
  • liquid hand soap
  • trolls erasers
  • blue and green gems
  • optional: duct tape

To make this simple sensory bag, fill a resealable plastic bag approximately half full with liquid hand soap. Add in the erasers and the gems. Take out the extra air and seal the bag well.

If you want, you can fully seal the bag using this Trolls duct tape on all sides of the bag. This will prevent leakage and also prevent younger children from opening the bag up and making a mess with the contents!

As with all sensory play activities, adult supervision is required. When you are finished with this sensory bag, the erasers can simply be washed off and used as erasers.

For other simple sensory ideas, join me for a free 5 part email series Sensory Solutions and Activities and get your Sensory System Behaviours Easy Reference Cards.

Unicorn Sensory Bag

Despicable Me Minions Sensory Bag

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Money Sensory Bag

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I like to create sensory activities to go along with some of our homeschool unit studies. When it comes to subjects such as science or social studies, it’s easy to come up with a sensory play idea, but math is a bit harder. When I saw a package of money confetti, I knew immediately that I could use it to finally create a math themed sensory activity. I was able to create a Money Sensory Bottle and this Money Sensory Bag.

Money Sensory Bag - great addition to a unit study #math #sensoryMoney Sensory Bag

Materials needed:

  • resealable plastic bag
  • liquid hand soap
  • money confetti
  • optional: duct tape

This money sensory bag would be a great compliment to a math unit study on money.

To assemble the money sensory bag, fill a plastic bag half full with liquid hand soap. Dump in some of the money confetti. Take the extra air out of the bag and seal.

You can also seal the bag fully by using duct tape such as this green duct tape around all the edges. This is especially good to do if younger children will be playing with the sensory bag. Just like with all sensory activities, adult supervision is recommended at all times. 

You can use some of the other money confetti to create a money sensory bottle or a money sensory bin. This will enable you to have many sensory options or a little math money sensory station in the classroom or at home.

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Squishy Sky Sensory BagArctic Sensory Bag

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