Easy and fun butterfly sensory play for preschool! Explore Spring, butterflies and tactile sensory play all with a butterfly theme. We included lots of opportunities for practicing fine motor skills too! Tactile sensory play is a wonderful addition to early childhood development. All our sensory play activities are perfect for young kids!

Butterfly Sensory Play for Kids

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Simple, engaging butterfly sensory play! He made up this tray so nicely and really took great care with it! The colors are beautiful and so visually stimulating for him. I supplied him with the tools and he came up with the idea! An open ended invitation to play with hands-on materials can result in some beautiful things! I love his desire to create and explore with the butterflies! Make sure to take a look at our bugs and butterflies sensory play collection.

This week we have still be enjoying bugs but I did a special twist with butterfly sensory play!  He really seemed to like it! He spent a greater than usual time using pretend play with this simple butterfly sensory activity.

 Often we have one big bin but this time I thought I would see what would happen if I offered two separate but similar butterfly sensory bins. Would he mix them right away? Would he keep them separate? All you need is a couple bags of beans or another one of our favorite sensory bin fillers and butterflies and bugs.

SUPPLIES LIST:

Butterfly TOOB

Butterfly Wooden Puzzle

Bug TOOB

Mini Ice Cube Tray

Tongs

 

He definitely examined the two butterfly sensory bins! I had mixed large green and blue colored beads into the green basket sensory bin and had placed a green and blue container and a mini ladle next to it with the hopes he would search and sort the large beads to work on fine motor skills.

The other butterfly sensory bin had a pair of plastic tongs and a fun mini ice cube tray. He is still on the young side so I was hoping he would just work on picking up the large beans and fill in the ice cube tray! He did a great job and also experimented with the tongs and beans too! I thought it would be fun to put the butterfly puzzle pieces into the sensory bin and have him use the tongs to put the pieces back!

Once we had done a few little activities, he wanted to mix the butterfly sensory bins, and we played with the butterflies and our little containers . He had a lot of fun with these butterfly sensory play activities. We have a few more bug play ideas including a NATURE’S SENSORY BIN, a BUG SLIME, and BUGS AND BUTTONS bin.

Hands- On Learning Butterfly Sensory Play 

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