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Preschool Valentines Sensory Bin with Frozen Hearts

February 6, 2016 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: This preschool Valentines sensory bin adds a bit of science as we explore what happens as the frozen hearts melt. A fun, hands-on activity!

I love that even after teaching for so many years, I can continue to find ideas we’ve never tried before!

I put together a preschool valentines sensory bin with frozen hearts that is easy peasy simple!

I froze water in various heart-shaped containers, added some pony beads and red coloring in some, and tossed it all into a sensory bin.

This year we seem to be on a roll with Valentines ice activities. I’ve recently shared how we painted on heart-shaped ice, sprinkling powder paint on top. We also had fun painting with frozen hearts! Now we are adding this frozen hearts sensory bin to the collection.

 

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Preschool Valentines Sensory Bin with Frozen Hearts

Note: Because of the smaller pieces, this Valentines sensory bin is geared for preschoolers. Check out this simpler frozen hearts sensory bin for toddlers!

Here’s what we used:

      • Giant heart cookie pan
      • We also used heart ice cube trays
      • Heart pony beads


Preparing the activity:

Pour water in the trays and freeze. We added red liquid watercolor to our small hearts and the pony beads to the large hearts. (This is optional – if you have younger children who still put things in their mouths, omit the beads.)

 

Valentines Sensory Bin with Frozen Hearts

Right before the preschoolers arrived, we placed the pans of frozen hearts into our sensory tub.  By the time they were ready to play with it, the ice had melted somewhat, creating a nice mixture of ice and water.

They used the tips of their thumbs and fingers to pry the heart beads from the ice, and also the small frozen hearts from their trays.

Valentines Sensory Bin with Frozen Hearts

It took great concentration to pop the hearts out!

Valentines Sensory Bin with Frozen Hearts

Once the ice popped out of the larger heart tray, the preschoolers filled it with the small hearts. Then, they put them back into the small ice cube tray. (The teacher in me loved the 1:1 correspondence going on, of course!)

Valentines Sensory Bin with Frozen Hearts

Like I said, easy peasy fun! And clean up is a breeze because everything gets rinsed in the sink.

 

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This activity is part of our favorite collection of Valentine activities. 

 

 

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Filed Under: preschool, Sensory Bins, Toddlers, Valentines, Winter Activities Tagged With: preschool, sensory, Valentines, winter

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. Felicia Akintola

    February 13, 2016 at 7:02 pm

    Good morning Ms Sheryl , pls I got a job in a new nursery school I need a new ideas of creativity, play, and any other ideas you have for a nursery that just started, thanks

    • Sheryl

      February 15, 2016 at 8:46 pm

      Oh, that is wonderful news, Felicia! Please go to my home page and click on “teachers”. You will find all my posts that are especially written for you teachers. Congratulations!

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