Make early learning fun with this simple rainbow rice alphabet puzzle activity! This sensory play and early learning idea is so easy to set up but provides tons of fun! There are so many ways to play with puzzles, learn letters, and enjoy sensory play! Combine multiple early learning ideas for a playful, hands-on learning time!
Rainbow Rice Alphabet Puzzle Sensory Play
Letter Recognition and Fine Motor Sensory Bin
Simple alphabet puzzle activity and sensory play to make today! Puzzles make wonderful early learning tools. However, repeating the same puzzle so many times is not as much fun. Mix up your puzzle play and letter recognition activity by adding it all to a sensory bin. Check out all our mixed up puzzle play ideas! Learning the alphabet and letter recognition is so important! We have a two part series on simple alphabet activities you can set up quickly. Alphabet Activities Part I and Alphabet Activities Part II, will provide you with tons of early learning alphabet ideas!
First you need to make some awesome rainbow rice {of course you can use white rice too}.
Check out all our favorite sensory bin fillers as well as our collection of non food sensory bin fillers to find new ideas.
Rainbow Rice Sensory Bin and Colors Play
Quick and simple alphabet puzzle activity sensory bin!
To make this alphabet puzzle activity and sensory bin, I started with colored rice as you can see above. I save my sensory bin fillers from activity to activity. There are so many ways to reuse your supplies. To learn how to quickly and easily color white rice, check out our easy colored rice recipe! It doesn’t take long at all. To make this simple alphabet puzzle activity and sensory bin, add your letters to the rice and mix them up! I like to add a set of tongs for fine motor skills!
You can hide the letters or leave them on top. You can use a bigger bin for a bigger search!
Use an inexpensive pair of dollar store tongs to find and pull out letters from this alphabet puzzle activity.
Strengthen and promote fine motor skills and letter recognition.
Turn an ordinary alphabet puzzle into an unique alphabet puzzle activity with sensory play!
When the puzzle is complete, add scoops and buckets for creative, sensory play.
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Kay says
Where can I get the letter shapes? I’d lik eto buy them. They would be wonderful for making playdough letters. I’d like to do this and make the letters out of dough and bake them. Then put them in the colored rice for the kiddos to find.
littlebins says
Check Amazon!