[00:00:00] Hi there. My name is Stephanie. I'm an occupational therapist, and today I'm going to walk you guys through how to make a sensory bin. I have all of my supplies here. You don't really have to go out. This is what I love about sensory bins. You don't really have to go out and buy anything. If you don't have a little clear Tupperware at home, you can use a pot, you can use a pan, you can use a bowl.
You can use anything that is container-esque that you have around your house. I went to the dollar store for these items, but again, the base of the tactile bins that you are making. You could have in your home. So all of this stuff in total cost me about one two,
$7. And I went above and beyond. I got a bunch of different bases. So first and foremost, with the bases, I always like to choose [00:01:00] different textures. So I always resort to beans. Beans are a great, fun novel texture, and when they're all together. They kind of feel like little rocks. Another great base that I love is rice.
And sometimes I'll even get like a different color bean. 'cause when you mix 'em all together, it looks pretty fun and cool. and the beans and the rice combined, or you can make two separate ones. It's totally up to you. Today I'm gonna do a combo of all three. and then. I always like to throw in another texture of some sort, so I got some little pompoms.
I got two different colors. I got some feathers. Feathers are so much fun in tactile bins because they can look for certain color feathers. They can pull them out. One of my favorite things to do with kids is once we collect all the feathers, you can hold them up really high and then drop them and then watch them fall.
It's beautiful. it's amazing visual [00:02:00] input and the kids love it, and it's really great for reciprocal play and joint attention as well, because they can hand you the feathers, make you do it again. Sign to you more, sign to you again. and then I also got these little fun like worm fidgets, like I said, dollar store, little worm fidgets to throw on there too.
So I'm gonna start with the rice. There is no. Right or wrong way to make a tactile sensory bin, these are great for different tactile exploration activities.
Just to give your child something novel, to feel, to touch, to look through. This is good for kids that are seeking tactile input and this is also really good for kids that are avoidant to tactile input. [00:03:00] the way that you approach engaging with the sensory bin, you know, will be different for each child.
but. For the most part, when working with kids, you always want to follow their lead. If they wanna dive in, let 'em dive in. If they don't wanna touch it, let them watch you play with it. alright. So cool. Look how fun is already looks! Okay, love it. I'm gonna add in some pompoms.
I don't know if I wanna do green or pink. Let's do green for the matches. My scrubs.
In they go no rhyme or reason. I'm gonna save some of those,
feathers! my favorite part.[00:04:00]
Ready? Ready, ready.
Incredible mix those in there. No runaways.
And there you have it, the most beautiful, texture filled, fun, colorful, engaging, tactile bin for under $10. I hope you make one. I hope you enjoy it. Add creativity to it. Include little dinosaurs, include little people. Whatever your child loves. Incorporate it in, they can always dig through it, try to find the items.
either way, it's so much fun and I hope you enjoyed. Thank you.
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