Spring Sensory Play

April 2018

Storytime

Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”

Book: Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson

Fingerplay: Watch It Bloom

Counting Rhyme with Magnet Board: Five Little Flowers

Book: Hooray for Hoppy! By Tim Hopgood

Game with Flannel Board: Find the Gnomes

Book: When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes

Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid

Sensory Activities

Bins

  • Flower & Bugs (black beans, popcorn, plastic bugs, artificial flowers pulled off stems, tweezers)
  • Carrot Patch (split peas, carrot eggs, white rabbit eggs)
  • Eggs (plastic eggs, plastic chick eggs, plastic rabbit eggs)
  • Planting Flowers (black beans, popcorn, artificial flowers with stems, flower pots)

Play Dough

  • Planting Flowers (mud colored play dough, flower pots, artificial flowers with stems)
  • Spring Play Dough (play dough, rolling pins, spring cookie cutters, other play dough utensils)

For details and pictures, see my blog post.