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How to Make a Frog Pond Spring Sensory Bin

June 22, 2011 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: This spring sensory bin is a great addition to your frog theme! After learning about the frog life cycle, put together water, rocks, lily pads and frogs for some sensory fun!

Exploring the frog life cycle is one of our themes for spring. We use a life cycle model at the science table, complete with books about frogs.

We sing the 5 Speckled Frogs finger play using our frog props.

And then, we introduce our frog pond sensory bin.

Oh yes, this sensory table is THE highlight of our frog theme. Lots of frogs in water with pretend lily pads. Our preschoolers love this activity year after year.

You will see why as you scroll down.

frog spring sensory bin

Frog Pond Spring Sensory Bin for Preschoolers

Getting started:

My co-teacher introduced our frog cycle pieces during our morning meeting. She then read a couple of frog books and we sang 5 Speckled Frogs.

Frog Activities

Science table:

She placed frog books at our science table and the frog life cycle pieces for the preschoolers to explore after our meeting.

Frog Activities

Frog Activities

Frog pond sensory bin:

Now for the highlight of our frog theme: the frog pond.

 

We cut lily pads from green foam sheets, added a variety of plastic plants and small plastic frogs. Oh, and some rocks from our yard. We filled our sensory table with water (we kept it shallow).

 

Frog Activities

The children loved placing as many frogs as they could on the lily pads. I could hear them counting the frogs and noticing which ones matched. (We had at least 2 sets of each frog.)

Frog Activities

As they were adding more frogs to the lily pads, they noticed the pads beginning to sink.

Frog Activities

They compared frogs on each lily pad. Again, they counted and compared. This is a great example of playful learning such as what I’ve shared in my blog post How to Make Math Fun for Preschoolers. They have no idea they are building math skills while playing with this activity!

Frog Activities

We kept this activity out all week, draining the water at the end of the day and starting fresh the next.

Frog Activities

 

Fun hands-on exploration!


frog spring sensory bin

 

 

More ideas to try:

Frogs on a Log Counting Activity

Toddler Frog Water Bin

Frog Craft Puppet

 

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Filed Under: preschool, Sensory Bins, Spring Activities Tagged With: preschool, science, sensory, spring

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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