Warm summer days are here and I think that one of the best ways to cool off is to splash around in water!  We don’t have a pool and Henry is a little afraid of sprinklers so I decided to take the water sensory bin outside.

I wanted to add some new objects to the bin for Henry to explore but didn’t feel like running to the store and spending money.  Instead I turned to our recycling bin!  You know what they say…..one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.  I gathered up a mustard bottle, dish soap bottle, mayonnaise jar, fruit cups, parmesan cheese container, Gatorade powder scoop and lots of Coke bottle caps.  In case you were wondering; no we didn’t not drink that much pop in one week!  Stephen got the caps from work.

Henry had a marvelous time exploring the objects and discovering different ways to manipulate the water!

While he played I talked to him about what he was doing; using vocabulary words like pour, scoop, dunk, shake, squeeze, in, out, empty and full.

His favorite thing to do was to have me pour water out of the parmesan cheese container into his cup.  Then he would pour the water out of his cup into the bin and say “again?”.

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Have you ever made a water sensory bin?  What items did you add?

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