Christmas sensory bins are the perfect, easy way to keep the kids busy this holiday season. Here are 10 of our favorite Christmas sensory bins, but we also have 25 Christmas Sensory Play ideas to choose from including awesome Christmas science sensory ideas. Messy, wet, and dry, we have a variety of Christmas sensory bins to try!

10 Christmas Sensory Bins for Kids

Sensory bins are wonderful for young children, excellent early learning tools, and just plain fun to ply with too! Why make a sensory bin? We have two great resources on sensory bins including our tactile sensory play guide and how to make simple sensory bins post. Make sure to check them out when planning your sensory bins this year.

10 {+1} Christmas Sensory Bins

Festive holiday play to keep kids busy and happy! Click on links below to see how we set up our sensory bins! We have many favorite sensory bin fillers and rotate sensory bins frequently. We have made quite a few Christmas sensory bins this season using a variety of sensory play materials. We also love to find ways to reuse our sensory bin goodies to create new sensory bins to try!

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Some of our favorite Christmas Sensory Bins to share with you!

Christmas Cookie Cloud Dough is a wonderful taste safe way to enjoy sensory play with young kids. It has the smells of Christmas too! Easy to make with kitchen supplies!

Colored Rice Train Small World is a fun way to take your child’s love of trains and mix it with sensory play. Create an imaginary world with a Christmas train theme.

Water Beads and Christmas Lights make a fun fine motor sensory bin with a very cool tactile sensory play texture. We love search and find sensory bins all year long.

Christmas Ornament Filling Sensory Play is a fun way to practice fine motor skills and incorporate sensory play. This Christmas sensory bin features a non-food sensory bin filler.

Christmas Magnet Sensory Bin incorporates both science and sensory play in one simple Christmas sensory bin. Kids can explore, discover, and play with science!

Christmas Sand Foam Sensory Play is easy to make messy Christmas sensory bin! Messy sensory play is super fun for kids.

Christmas Ornament Water Play is a simple water Christmas sensory bin. Great for filling, pouring, mixing, and exploring. Quick and easy to throw together too.

Candy Cane Rice Sensory Bin is easy to make with our simple colored rice recipe and the colors are just like our favorite holiday treat.

Christmas Treasure Basket is great for babies and toddlers who still need large items to explore. Sensory bins often have items that are very small and the fillers can be a choking hazard. A treasure basket is a great way for very young kids to explore different textures.

Christmas Green Sand Sensory Bin is a simple way to play with a fun texture all kids love.

Not quite a sensory bin but perfect for on the go play! I Spy Christmas Sensory Bottles are great for a mess free sensory activity and also to work on visual processing skills. Makes a great travel, restaurant, or quiet time idea.

We save all our sensory bin materials from year to year so that we can recreate fun sensory bins whenever we want! Store items in zip lock bags including most fillers and place in a large plastic storage container. This way you will have great materials on hand all year long.