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.

Sensory 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

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

American Girls Doll Sensory Bag

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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American Girls Doll Sensory Bottle

Unicorn Sensory Bag

Trolls Sensory Bag

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.  It 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.

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Unicorn Sensory Bag

Despicable Me Minions Sensory Bag

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

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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