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Jingle Bells for Preschoolers – In the Sensory Bin!

December 8, 2016 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: During the holidays include jingle bells for your preschoolers – in the sensory bin! This is a fun way to learn about magnets as the children pick up the bells (and other magnetic materials) with wands.

What is it about jingle bells that we love so much?

No matter what activity we use with them, it is a hit.

It’s hard for me to say which activity they’ve loved most, because making and using our jingle bell sticks was a lot of fun.

And sorting jingle bells by color was popular, too. We also used jingle bells for a fun painting activity.

Oh, and then we also loved our jingle bell musical instruments.

So you can see we love using jingle bells with preschoolers – in lots of different ways!

Jingle Bell Magnetic Sensory Bin

 

Jingle Bells for Preschoolers – In the Sensory Bin!

What we used:

  • Assorted sizes of jingle bells
  • Magnetic wands
  • Dyed rice
  • Miscellaneous small items (some that attract to the magnet, some that don’t)



Put together a preschool jingle bells activity in your sensory bin for magnetic fun. A bit of science during your holiday theme!

It’s always fun to see what a magnetic wand picks up. Moving it through the rice allowed some buried treasures to be found.

Jingle Bell Magnetic Sensory Bin

Using a variety of sizes made the bells fun to hold, too. (And then wonder why they didn’t make as much noise when the hands were wrapped around them.)

Put together a preschool jingle bells activity in your sensory bin for magnetic fun. A bit of science during your holiday theme!

 

Put together a preschool jingle bells activity in your sensory bin for magnetic fun. A bit of science during your holiday theme!

 

We also added small boxes and containers to place the small items in. Always a favorite with this age group!

Put together a preschool jingle bells activity in your sensory bin for magnetic fun. A bit of science during your holiday theme!

Some ideas for the miscellaneous items:

  • Puff balls
  • Metal lids from containers
  • Metal rings
  • Juice can lids

You might notice those metal rectangular pieces. When I worked in retail years ago, they changed their signs’ frames and asked if my preschool could use them. They are truly the best magnetic pieces ever! The bottoms of each one have a magnetic strip that was used to keep the signs on the racks. Our toddlers and preschoolers create some amazing buildings with them!

 

 

Put together a preschool jingle bells activity in your sensory bin for magnetic fun. A bit of science during your holiday theme!

And that’s it! Super easy, right?

 

Make sure to follow our Christmas pin board for hundreds of other fun activities!

Put together a preschool jingle bells activity in your sensory bin for magnetic fun. A bit of science during your holiday theme!

 


More Christmas fun:

20 Christmas Snacks Kids Will Love

Fun Christmas Tree Spin Art

Christmas Yarn Wrapped Stars

 

Preschool Christmas Favorites

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Filed Under: Christmas Activities, preschool, Sensory Bins Tagged With: Christmas, 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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  1. Lena Fishman says

    December 22, 2016 at 10:33 am

    Such fun activities! Bells are so exciting!

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