Here we have a few different ideas for St. Patrick’s Day sensory tables/bins:
Colored cloud dough, gold coins, mini cauldrons.
Pluffle, leprechaun toys, caring coins, wooden rainbow and letter rocks.
CLOUD DOUGH
First, a cloud dough table. It is so messy, but lots of fun. Here is a simple recipe. I definitely needed to add more food coloring to my batches to get the intended purple, green colors, but nonetheless the kids had so much fun. They hid the coins and then collected them in their cauldrons, and eventually it all mixed together and became a construction site for the rest of the week. Below is the recipe for cloud dough!
RECIPE:
Measure 8 cups of flour into a large bowl and add 1 cup of baby oil.
Mix and squeeze the ingredients with your hands to incorporate until the dough holds together when squeezed.
If desired, mix oil based candy food coloring with the oil before mixing it into the flour.
PLUFFLE
Second, pluffle table. Pluffle is so much fun! It has the strangest texture of almost like rubber and kinetic sand mixed together. My kids love it and here I bought three colors and mixed them all together. Then added some coins and mini leprechaun guys. Lastly, we added our wooden rainbow (which I will post about another time!) and our letter rocks.
The letter rocks I made myself and instead of being resourceful and collecting rocks from outside… I definitely bought rocks to paint and painted them myself with acrylic paint and acrylic paint markers. As a side note, if you are ever creating letters of anything that you want your child to work on spelling, make your vowels a different color than your consonants. This helps your child differentiate between the two! We have used the letter rocks a lot! Even my older two boys have loved practicing their spelling words with them and my 3 year old, spelling his name!
Link to Pluffle: https://amzn.to/3yIBR7W
Link to wooden rainbow: https://amzn.to/3LvxCEh
Link to coins: https://amzn.to/42h1Kt8
Link to leprechauns: https://amzn.to/3n1aeEJ
Link to mini cauldrons: https://amzn.to/3JkRtU9
Link to rocks: https://amzn.to/3lnnLpm
Link to acrylic paints and markers:
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