Kindergarten Sensory Bins for the Year Bundle | Monthly Sensory Bin Activities

Description

Having academic sensory bins or a sensory table in your classroom is the perfect way to engage your students in hands-on learning. These low prep monthly sensory bin activities will make preparing your sensory bins for the year a breeze!

These monthly math and literacy activities were designed with sensory bins in mind, but would also be perfect for center activities, morning tubs, or early finishers.

Prepping Your Sensory Bin:

• Decide how you want to store your sensory bins – a plastic tub or drawers for multiple bins and a time work well.
• Decide what fillers you want in each sensory bin. A list of suggestions is included.

What is included in each month?

• 6 sensory bin centers
• Color and black and white ink-saver versions
• Recording sheets

Back to School Sensory Bin Activities Include:

3 Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 3 Math Sensory Bins

1. Chicka Alphabet Tracing – Pull a letter and trace it with the matching color.
2. Crayon Colors – Pull a crayon and color the matching color object or color word.
3. Bus Beginning Sounds – Pull a bus card and identify the beginning sound. Color the matching letters.
4. Chalkboard Numbers – Pull a number and trace it or color the matching dots.
5. Penciling In 2D Shapes – Pull a 2D shape card and color the matching shape or real life shape object.
6. Crayon Count – Pull a number card and color the matching crayon box. Bonus counting mats are included.

September Sensory Bin Activities Include:

3 Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 3 Math Sensory Bins

1. Apple Alphabet – Pull a letter and trace or color it with the matching color.
2. Dough Colors – Pull a dough color word object and color the matching color word.
3. Apple Beginning Sounds – Pull an apple bag card and identify the beginning sound. Color the matching letters.
4. Apple Numbers – Pull a number and trace it or color the matching apple basket.
5. Apple 2D Shapes – Pull a 2D shape card and color the matching shape or real life shape object.
6. Dough Count – Pull a number card and color the matching ten frame. Bonus ten frame counting mats are included.

October Sensory Bin Activities Include:

3 Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 4 Math Sensory Bins

1. Pumpkin Cookie Alphabet – Pull a letter and trace or color it with the matching color.
2. Spider Sight Words – EDITABLE – Match the sight word spiders to their webs.
3. Search for Beginning Sounds – Pull an leaf and identify the beginning sound using a magnifying glass. Color the matching letters.
4. Leaf Numbers – Pull a number and trace it or color the matching tree. Count out leaves to match the number.
5. Comparing Pumpkins – Pull two number cards and compare the numbers.
6. Counting Bats – Pull a number card and count out that many bats.
7. Skeleton Tally Marks – Match the skeleton numbers to the tally marks.

November Sensory Bin Activities Include:

3 November Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 4 November Math Sensory Bins

1. Turkey Feather Alphabet – Pull a letter and trace or color it with the matching color.
2. Fall Sight Words – EDITABLE – Match the sight word owls to their leaves.
3. Search for Beginning OR Ending Sounds – Pull an acorn picture and decide the beginning OR ending sound. Color the matching letters.
4. Turkey Numbers – Pull a number and trace it or draw feathers on the turkey to match. Count out feathers to match the number.
5. Acorn Compare – Pull two numbers and compare them. Draw the correct symbol.
6. Acorn Ten Frames – Pull an acorn number and build it on the ten frames.
7. Fall Subitizing – Pull an owl dot card and match it to a leaf number. Color the matching number on your recording sheet.

December Sensory Bin Activities Include:

4 December Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 3 December Math Sensory Bins

1. Gumdrop Letters or Beginning Sounds – Students will pull a letter card and trace the match OR pull a picture card and color the matching beginning sound.
2. Hot Cocoa Sight Words – Students will match the sight words on the cocoa cup cards to the sight words on the marshmallows.
3. Ending Sounds Express – Students will pull a picture card and color the matching ending sound.
4. B and D Discrimination – Students will pull an ornament and decide if it shows b or d.
5. Snowflake Numbers – Students will pull a number card. They can trace the number, color a snowflake that represents the number, or write the numbers that come before and after.
6. Gumdrop Numbers – Students will pull a number card. They can compare two numbers or fill in the ten frames to match.
7. Christmas Tree Addition – Students will pull two dot dice cards. They will draw dots to match and add them together.

January Sensory Bin Activities Include:

4 January Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 4 January Math Sensory Bins

1. Feed the Penguin Letters or Beginning Sounds
2. EDITABLE Polar Sight Words Matching
3. Snowman Stew CVC Words
4. Mitten Ending Sounds
5. Mitten Digraphs
6. Feed the Polar Bear Numbers – Counting or Counting On
7. Mitten Numbers – Comparing or Ten Frames
8. Snowflake Addition
9. Snowman Number Formation

February Sensory Bin Activities Include:

4 February Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 4 February Math Sensory Bins

1. Sweet Letters, Beginning Sounds, or Digraphs
2. EDITABLE Sweet Sight Words
3. A Sprinkle of CVC Words
4. Mailing Ending Sounds or Vowel Sounds
5. Mailing Numbers – Number sense or ten frames to 20
6. The Counting Jar – Number sense, Counting On, or Before and After
7. Sweet Equations – Addition or Subtraction
8. A Sprinkle of Number Formation

March Sensory Bin Activities Include:

4 March Literacy Sensory Bin Activities and 3 March Math Sensory Bins

1. Rainy Day Letters, Beginning Sounds, or Digraphs
2. EDITABLE Rainbow Sight Words
3. Search for Gold CVC Words or Digraphs
4. Shamrock Ending Sounds or Short Vowel Sounds
5. Shamrockin’ Numbers – Number Sense, Before and After, or Counting On
6. Looking for Gold 3D Shapes
7. Rainbow Addition and Subtraction

Looking for more hands-on, low prep center activities for Kindergarten?

⭐️Kindergarten Low Prep Math and Literacy Centers for the Year

⭐️The ULTIMATE Writing Center for K-1

⭐️Pocket Dice Centers for the Year

⭐️Sight Word Centers for the Year

⭐️Kindergarten Technology Center (DIGITAL Centers for the Year)