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Valentine’s Day Sensory Bin & Math Game for Preschoolers

Where Imagination Grows — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 21:56:04 +0000

This Valentine’s Day sensory bin is a fun way to combine sensory play with beginning math skills for preschoolers! Plus it uses one of our favorite sensory bin fillers: Water beads! We love water beads! Have you used them yet? This easy sensory box is a perfect blend of fine motor skill development and sensory play […]

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Spring Water Bead Sensory Bin for the Light Table

Where Imagination Grows — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 11:00:44 +0000

Attention water bead fans! Here’s a spring water bead sensory bin for hours of fun! We love spring but in our neck of the woods spring usually means rain, and lots of it, so we have to find spring activities that bring spring to us in other ways. Sensory bins are a great way to […]

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Spring Flower Sensory Bin with Water Beads

Where Imagination Grows — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:33:36 +0000

Celebrate spring with this fun water bead and flower sensory bin for kids! Have you played with water beads yet? They are seriously some of our favorite sensory materials! The girls loved it when we got to cut and squish them on the light table and even just simple water bead play is always a […]

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Water Bead Letter Matching Game for the Light Table

Where Imagination Grows — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:30:28 +0000

Do your kids love water beads? Are they beginning to learn letters? Then this water bead letter matching game is perfect for them! It’s a simple activity that mixes sensory play with letter recognition practice and fine motor skill development. We used this on the light table but it’s also fun off the light table […]

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Fine Motor Light Table Activity: Cutting Water Beads!

Where Imagination Grows — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 18:21:35 +0000

This is such a fun light table activity that helps develop fine motor skills! Water beads are some of our favorite sensory materials. We generally play with the same batch for quite some time, around 4-6 weeks, before it’s time for a new batch to be “grown.” Usually we have a squishing party outside and […]

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Simple Water Beads Sensory Play with Glow Sticks

Where Imagination Grows — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Here is a super simple water beads sensory play activity for kids! I recently bought some water beads from the dollar store and since they don’t need to be soaked we decided to pour them into a bowl and find a simle way to play with them using our DIY Light Table. What simpler than throwing in […]

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