Christmas Ornament Sensory Play

Hands-On Sensory Activities for Play and Learning

Christmas ornament sensory play has been one of our favorites this year! How many ways can you use these awesome plastic ornaments? Eruptions, color mixing, water sensory play, and craft sand play! Here’s one more great Christmas ornament sensory play idea using one of our favorite fillers, poly-fil beads!

Christmas Ornament Sensory Play

Of course, you can turn your Christmas ornament sensory play into awesome ornaments for the tree too! Here’s our easy to make Christmas ornaments!

Supplies Needed:

sensory bin container
plastic globe ornaments
poly fil plastic pellet beads {weighted fill}
mini decorations and buttons
funnel, scoops and container for exploring, filling and dumping

Our Christmas ornament sensory play bin is super simple to set up and store as well! Grab a container with a good fitting lid for play all month long! Add your ingredients and your Christmas ornament sensory play bin is ready to go! Set out and invite your child to explore. Tactile sensory play is amazing for young children. Our sensory resource guide will show you how and why!

Christmas Ornament Sensory Play

We loved playing with our Christmas ornament sensory play bin together. I love the feel of these beads on my hands and so does he! Hint: Grab a coupon for your local craft store and get this easy sensory bin filler for a great deal! He loved finding all the cute mini decorations and buttons I hid around the bin {also great craft store finds}!

Filling these ornaments with the small openings makes for great fine motor skills work too! We made all sort of creations including a melted snowman ornament! A funnel is fun to include too. These bins are great for fine motor sensory play!

Create and re-create a new ornament each time! We even added a little math work and counting into ours! There are so many opportunities for play and learning with simple sensory bins like our Christmas ornament sensory play activity!