Posts Tagged ‘Sensory play’
This goes very well with the rhyme, Open Them Shut Them:
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap, clap, clap!
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Lay them in your lap, lap lap.
Creep them crawl them , creep them crawl them
Right up to your chin, chin chin
Open up your little mouth
But do not let them in!
![A Variety of containers with different opening mechanisms: a box, a tin, a plastic egg, an eyeglasses case](https://2ndurlofrochester.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_5844-1024x865.jpeg)
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It is important to remember your audience – do not put items that the children could choke on inside the containers, and remember that string and yarn can be a strangulation hazard (this is probably obvious to many of you, but just in case…)
This sensory bin works well with Dinosaur themed story books (and the non-fiction work “Dinosaur Bones” Bob Barner
![Toddler digging plastic dinosaurs out of black beans](http://2ndurlofrochester.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_5895-768x1024.jpeg)