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Valentine’s Pluffle Sensory Bin

By Sharla Kostelyk

(This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, see my disclosure policy.)

I recently discovered this new play material called Pluffle. I haven’t decided yet if I think it’s cool or icky (it moves a bit like little worms – ewww!), but I can tell that I’m going to be using it in a lot of upcoming play activities! This Valentine’s Pluffle Sensory Bin is the first.

hand holding red playfoam and a heart eraser with text that reads "Valentine's Pluffle Sensory Bin"Pluffle is a play foam. I don’t know the science behind it, but it kind of moves on its own. It’s a bit creepy, but also very fun. Kids are pretty fascinated while they watch the movement as it expands.

Valentine’s Pluffle Sensory Bin:

Supplies needed:

  • red Pluffle
  • heart shaped erasers (from the Dollar Store)
  • red jumbo kid tweezers
  • pink heart shaped cookie cutters
  • small pink heart shaped containers (from the Dollar Store)
  • pink and red tic tac toe placeholders (from the Dollar Store)
  • plastic bin

Directions:

  1. Empty a container of Pluffle into a plastic container.
  2. Drop in some heart shaped erasers, the cookie cutters, jumbo tweezers, and plastic heart containers.
  3. Invite your child or students to play.

Sensory and Learning Opportunities:

Fine motor skills – Kids can use the heart containers to scoop and fill. They can use the tweezers to pick up the Pluffle or to pick up the erasers and move them.

Math – Students can arrange the cookie cutters from smallest to largest or use spacial concepts to fit hearts inside each other.

Vocabulary – Talking about patterns, colours, and what textures they are feeling can help kids improve their communication skills and encourage them to ask questions.

Sensory – This Valentine’s Sensory Bin provides visual and tactile sensory feedback along with a bit of proprioception. There are a lot of textures to explore with the soft pluffle and the squishy erasers and the hard tic tac toe tiles.

Check out some of our other Valentine’s sensory play activities:

Scented Valentine’s Sensory Bin

Valentine’s Calm Down Bottle

Valentine’s Sensory BottleValentines Sensory Bottle whose contents can be turned into a Valentines sensory bin.

Filed Under: Sensory Bins Tagged With: sensory play

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