This squishy sky sensory bag is simple to make and you only need a few materials. Depending on the age of your child, they can even help cut out the clouds to make the sensory bag.

Materials needed:

• medium sized resealable freezer bag
• blue hair gel or blue body wash
• white foam sheet
• In the Sky toob
• scissors

Using scissors, cut some cloud shapes out of the white foam sheet. If you are having your child help you with this step, you can lightly sketch the outline of a cloud with pencil and have them cut along the outline.

Place the foam clouds inside a resealable bag. Add a few items from the In the Sky toob and squeeze some blue hair gel or body wash into the bag. Remove excess air from the bag and seal.

I prefer to use a good quality freezer bag rather than a sandwich bag for sensory bags because they are more durable and I prefer the size as well.

If you’re using these sky sensory bags with younger children, you can secure the opening of the bag by folding strong clear packing tape or duct tape over the top of the bag. You can also do this to all sides of the bag for extra durability.

I used the same In the Sky toob to make a Sky Sensory Bottle and a Sky Sensory Bin. All of these were perfect during our Flight Unit in homeschooling.

Sky Sensory Bottle

Sky Sensory Bin

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Last week when I made our arctic sensory bottle, there were some really adorable items from the arctic toob that didn’t fit in the mouth of the bottle. I wanted to be able to use them, so I decided to make an arctic sensory bag with them. I also used what was left from the expired coconut I had used as the “snow” in the sensory bottle.

This sensory bag is particularly easy to make because it requires very few materials.

Materials needed:

• medium resealable freezer bag
• flaked coconut
• arctic toob

Place the flaked coconut and items from the arctic toob into the resealable bag. Remove the excess air and seal.

If you are creating this sensory bag for younger children, you will want to seal the bag with duct tape or heavy, clear packing tape after closing it so that they aren’t able to open it. You may also want to fold the tape over the other sides of the bag as well to reinforce it. I choose to use good quality freezer bags for my sensory bags rather than sandwich bags because they are more durable.

This arctic sensory bag and the arctic sensory bottle would work well for a theme unit on the North.

Arctic Sensory Bottle

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After the ease of creating our St. Patrick’s Day sensory bottle, I decided to make this St. Patrick’s Day sensory bag using some of the leftover supplies for my kids to enjoy.

For my sensory bags, I use the medium size freezer bags because they are slightly larger and much more durable than sandwich baggies.

One of my daughters loved the squishy feeling of this sensory bag (as you can see from the pictures above!)

Materials needed:

• medium sized resealable freezer bag
• clear or light green hand sanitizer
• large shamrock confetti
• sparkly clovers (I found these at the dollar store, but you could use these glittered buttons instead)
• plastic gold coins
• optional: clear packing tape

Fill the bag with the hand sanitizer and then place the other items inside. You could also add other green items or a plastic rainbow. Remove excess air and seal the bag. If you are making this for younger children, I would suggest adding clear packing tape over the opening so that they don’t open it.

Sensory bags are a great way to explore through touch and sight. They are a simple sensory activity without the potential mess of a sensory bin.

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St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bottle

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

The Ocean Sensory Bottle I made last month was one of the kids’ all-time favourites so I decided to make a sensory bag to go along with it. They loved our squishy Shark Sensory Bag.

To make this shark sensory bag, I used what was left of the blue body wash we used for the Ocean Discovery Bottle and topped it up with some liquid hand soap. The liquid hand soap that I used was green so I added some blue food colouring to the bag to create a really vibrant blue. Then I just plopped some toy sharks into the bag and sealed it up.

Materials needed:

• medium sized resealable bag (I used a freezer bag because I wanted it to be stronger)
• blue body wash or liquid hand soap (or you can use both like I did)
• small plastic sharks
• optional: blue food colouring
• optional: clear packing tape

Squeeze the body wash and/or liquid hand soap into the resealable bag. Fill it about half full. For a more vibrant blue colour, add some blue food colouring to this step and then squish it around to mix.

Add some toy sharks to the bag. The ones I used were plastic and weighted because they are meant to be a diving toy in a pool. I bought them from the dollar store. Any small shark toys would work well.

Take out the excess air and seal the bag. If you are using this bag with little ones, I suggest that you fold a strip of packing tape over the top of the bag after sealing. This will ensure that the bag won’t get opened by little ones and that you won’t get goop on your floor!

For toddlers, you can tape the bag onto a table to make it easier for them to move the sharks around. Of course, as with all activities, your child should be supervised while playing with their shark sensory bag.

This would a cute and easy way to create a sensory activity for Shark Week.

Ocean Sensory Bottle

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