Animal Counters Sensory Bin & Color Sort

One of our favorite manipulatives or learning tools to use is animal counters.  We have used them for a lot of different learning activities like counting, graphing, and creating patterns.  Today, we added our animal counters to a sensory bin to practice sorting, identifying, and classifying by color.  My children had so much fun using this Animal Counters Sensory Bin to explore and learn all about colors.

Supplies:

• Plastic Container
• Water Beads, Tissue Paper or other Sensory Bin Filler
• Animal Counters
• Muffin Tin

How To Play:

• Fill a plastic container with water beads, tissue paper, or another sensory bin filler and add the animal counters.
• Children can sort through the sensory bin and pick out all of the animal counters.
• Children can divide the animal counters by color and place each color in a different cup in the muffin tin.  You can also use colored cups or silicone baking cups to help children classify the colors.

Extend the Learning:

• After sorting the animal counters by color, count and graph the numbers on a bar graph.
• Sort the animal counters by the animals instead of by color.
• Use the animal counters to create animal and color patterns.
• Name an animal and color and have your child find that counter in the bin.

For our Animal Counters Sensory Bin, we used animal counters but there are a a lot of different types of counters that you can use including teddy bears, dinosaurs, ocean animals, and farm animals.

Need  More Ideas For Using Animal Counters or Rainbow Counters?  Check these out!

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