Bugs & Garden Sensory Bin

$4.50

A garden sensory bin with letters, numbers, sounds, sorting and counting. Bury the flower and bug cards, dig them out and learn.

What’s inside

  • 15 pages: a cover, a how-to page for grown-ups and 13 boards and card pages
  • Flower Gardens: cross off uppercase A–Z, lowercase a–z and numbers 1–20
  • Build Your Name: line up flower letters to spell a name
  • Beginning Sounds: match a flower letter to the bug it starts
  • Flower Color Sort: sort pom-poms into matching flower pots
  • Bug Patterns: finish each bug pattern
  • Put the Bees on the Flowers and My Garden Has __ Flowers: one-to-one placing and counting
  • Cut-out cards: flower letters (A–Z and a–z), number flowers 1–20 and bug cards

Skills it builds

  • Hand strength and pincer grasp
  • Letter and number recognition
  • Beginning sounds
  • Sorting, patterns and one-to-one counting

How to use

Print, laminate and cut out the cards. Fill a bin with dried beans, split peas, shredded paper “grass” or pom-poms and bury the cards for one activity at a time. Your child digs out a flower or bug, then crosses it off, matches it, sorts it or counts it. Best for ages 3–6. Laminate the boards so the dry-erase marker wipes clean for years. Prep time: 10 minutes once.

You’ll need

A shallow bin or tray, a filler (dried beans, rice, oats, corn or shredded paper), and tongs or a scoop. A laminator or sheet protectors keep the boards wipe-clean. Colored pom-poms and a dry-erase marker are optional.

Save with a bundle

Get this pack in the Sensory Bin Mega Bundle and save compared with buying the packs one by one. Also in the Bugs & Garden Fine Motor Bundle.

From a pediatric OT

Made by Ms. Aviv, a licensed pediatric occupational therapist, and used with real kids before it reaches you. Print-ready PDF on US Letter (prints on A4 with “fit to page”).

A garden sensory bin with letters, numbers, sounds, sorting and counting. Bury the flower and bug cards, dig them out and learn.

What’s inside

  • 15 pages: a cover, a how-to page for grown-ups and 13 boards and card pages
  • Flower Gardens: cross off uppercase A–Z, lowercase a–z and numbers 1–20
  • Build Your Name: line up flower letters to spell a name
  • Beginning Sounds: match a flower letter to the bug it starts
  • Flower Color Sort: sort pom-poms into matching flower pots
  • Bug Patterns: finish each bug pattern
  • Put the Bees on the Flowers and My Garden Has __ Flowers: one-to-one placing and counting
  • Cut-out cards: flower letters (A–Z and a–z), number flowers 1–20 and bug cards

Skills it builds

  • Hand strength and pincer grasp
  • Letter and number recognition
  • Beginning sounds
  • Sorting, patterns and one-to-one counting

How to use

Print, laminate and cut out the cards. Fill a bin with dried beans, split peas, shredded paper “grass” or pom-poms and bury the cards for one activity at a time. Your child digs out a flower or bug, then crosses it off, matches it, sorts it or counts it. Best for ages 3–6. Laminate the boards so the dry-erase marker wipes clean for years. Prep time: 10 minutes once.

You’ll need

A shallow bin or tray, a filler (dried beans, rice, oats, corn or shredded paper), and tongs or a scoop. A laminator or sheet protectors keep the boards wipe-clean. Colored pom-poms and a dry-erase marker are optional.

Save with a bundle

Get this pack in the Sensory Bin Mega Bundle and save compared with buying the packs one by one. Also in the Bugs & Garden Fine Motor Bundle.

From a pediatric OT

Made by Ms. Aviv, a licensed pediatric occupational therapist, and used with real kids before it reaches you. Print-ready PDF on US Letter (prints on A4 with “fit to page”).