Bosque Invernal / Winter Sensory Bin for Spanish Learning
About this activity
Create a small snowy world with this winter forest sensory bin. You can customize this activity with whatever you have at home, but it's pretty straightforward: white rice for the snow, some toy animals, and some "treasures" collected from outside, and ta-da! A winter forest! See the details below and at the end we've included key words and phrases in Spanish :)
Create a small snowy world with this winter forest sensory bin. You can customize this activity with whatever you have at home, but it's pretty straightforward: white rice for the snow, some toy animals, and some "treasures" collected from outside, and ta-da! A winter forest! See the details below and at the end we've included key words and phrases in Spanish :)
What skills your chiqui will build with this winter sensory bin
Fine motor skills, imagination, language skills, and "small world play"
Materials needed:
Fine motor skills, imagination, language skills, and "small world play"
Materials needed:
- Storage bin or container
- White rice or other white filling (we used small tapioca pearls)
- Toy animals
- Outdoor treasures (pine cones, sticks, pine needles)
- Cups and spoons for scooping and pouring
Set-up:
- Fill the box with the rice and nature objects
- Add toy animals
- Invite your chiqui to play!
Game play:
This activity is all about "small world play" and imagination, so let your child have the toy animals interact and play in the snow. You can try some other games like hide-and-seek or "guess which animal."
This activity is all about "small world play" and imagination, so let your child have the toy animals interact and play in the snow. You can try some other games like hide-and-seek or "guess which animal."
¡Juega en español!
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