August Sensory Games and Bins

This month our games centered around dogs, farm and food.  What a combination, huh!

1.) Cow Putt-Putt
I had a lot of fun making this for the kids.  It was really easy, I just cut a hole out of an old box and covered it with paper.  Then I just made the cow out of construction paper.  We have a child's set of putt-putt that we keep, and the kids go crazy over putt-putt!

2.) Dog Bones Sensory Bin
I've seen lots of versions of this online, so I wanted to make my own.  I have a box that I use over and over for this.  The trick I've found is to leave one of the flaps open on the back, so that when you need to get your items out of the box, you can just open the flap up very easily.  The only thing that didn't work out good with this was I hid the different colored bones inside streamers.  Normally the preschoolers will only dig out the items we are "feeding" and put them inside the box.  For whatever reason they stuffed everything they could into the box which made it very messy.  But overall they loved this game.

3.) Chicken Eggs Sensory Bin
I was so excited to do this with the kids, but I didn't think about them opening up the Easter eggs, to see what prize was inside.  Once I got them to understand that the eggs were chickens and to put them into the right colored bowl, it was a lot of fun for them to do.  Super easy to prepare too!
Credit: Modern Preschool

4.) Mouse Cookie Alphabet Match
This game I only did with the preschoolers, but they are doing amazing with learning their letters.  This is a free download and its adorable!
Credit: The Letters of Literacy