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Easy Apple Sensory Table that Also Builds Fine Motor Skills

September 15, 2017 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Looking for an easy apple sensory table for your fall theme? This activity has an extra fine-motor challenge with scoops and tweezers and is fun for preschoolers!

Our first fall theme is apples. We make applesauce, we sort and count apples, and, of course, we fill our sensory bins with apples, too.

Well, not real apples. We happened to have some we borrowed from an apple attribute game. Since part of the goal for this apple sensory bin is to strengthen those hands, we added our favorite tongs.

And because I love activities with multi-skills working, we threw in some alphabet pebbles for some early literacy.

Sounds fun, right? Our preschoolers would agree!

Easy Apple Sensory Table that Also Builds Fine Motor Skills

Easy Apple Sensory Table that Also Builds Fine Motor Skills

First, you will need a filler. We used uncooked rice that was dyed brown. If you’d like to try this but have never dyed  your own rice before, you can see how we do so in our sunflower sensory bin post.

Easy Apple Sensory Bin for Fall

Then, we added the apples. Any type pretend apples will work.

We also tossed in the alphabet pebbles for some literacy fun.

Easy Apple Sensory Bin for Fall

Add tweezers for some additional fine motor practice.

Easy Apple Sensory Bin for Fall

At first the children used both hands to squeeze the tweezers open and closed.

Easy Apple Sensory Bin for Fall

Once I modeled how to use them a few times, most of the children were able to switch from using the entire hand (or both hands) to just using the fingers and thumbs. They used the tweezers to pick up the small grains of rice and the alphabet pebbles.

They used their hands to pick up and transfer the apples, putting them inside various containers.

Easy Apple Sensory Bin for Fall

For younger children who cannot yet master the tweezers, small shovels and/or scoops can be used.

 

Easy Apple Sensory Table that Also Builds Fine Motor Skills

More fall activities:

Apple Graph Activity with Free Printable Cards

Preschool Counting Activity with Apples

Apple Stand Dramatic Play

 

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Filed Under: Fall Activities, Fine Motor, preschool, Preschool Fine Motor, Sensory Bins Tagged With: fall, fine motor, preschool, sensory

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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