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| Lavender Alphabet Pebbles Sensory Bin |
This sensory bin can be used as a quiet time activity bin or as a calm down bin as well as the work we use it to help my daughter learn her sounds of the alphabet. She has been diagnosed with a severe phonological delay and so I will begin posting activities that we do at home to help her supplement the work she will be doing with the Speech Language Pathologist. I want to keep things fun with the work we do at home.
Lavender is known for it’s calming properties. When I need to do a mindfulness check I usually have my lavender mist close at hand. So I thought why not use the calming quality of lavender in a calm down box for some quiet time needed by child and mama.
First, I remembered I had a box filled with moon sand that has been sitting shelved for some time so why not give it new life. This is my first bin and I will have to see how she responds to the sand. I may have to revise later to more of cloud dough. See what she likes. My oldest son loves sand texture all the time. He is seven and half and he loves playing with this bin as well. For him it is down time to be in his own head. To add the lavender I just sprayed some lavender mist into the sand and kneaded it. Because it is for my kids I just did a few. I would go gentle on the spray if your kids have never been introduced to a lavender mist before. I have a room mist I use so my kids are familiar with the smell.
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| Alphabet Pebbles |
I found these black decorative pebbles sitting in my craft storage and wrote a letter of the alphabet on each one using an acrylic white pen. I had so many pebbles that I also wrote the alphabet in lower case and I also included digraphs such as th, sh , ch, bl, ea , oo, ou and ee. When we use the box we can match objects to letters, do letter recognition, and practice our sounds. When applying the ink I let the pebbles dry for about an hour otherwise the ink could rub off easily.
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| Matching letters with objects |
Next , we went on alphabet hunt for items to include in the bin with the letters so the letters could be matched with an object. Sometimes the sound is the first letter and with other sounds we found objects that had the sound within it. Ie. Lighting McQueen for Q.
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| Alphabet Pebbles and Letter Matching |
Once we had all of our objects, we placed them in the bin. I’m using a scrap booking tote as I found it deep enough to work in without sand getting everywhere. When we were done I could just leave everything in it and close it up until next time.
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| Scrapbooking Tote as Sensory Box |
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