Bloggers are always posting about these lovely, creative "sensory bins" that they make for their children to explore. Rice dyed blue with sea shells and animal figures...aquarium gravel with zoo animals...lima beans with ferns and dinosaurs. I've skeptically admired them from afar, until today. I finally decided to throw caution to the wind, dump a couple of partially used bags of dry beans into the water table with some fun scooping tools, and invite my children to use their senses to explore and enjoy their magical bean world in an unguided fashion (because that's what all of the blogs claim you do with these bins, and they make it sound really impressive.)
But here's how it really went down (there was no time for 'before' pictures, this happened fast):
It took half an hour to clean up all of the beans (Did you know that it's pretty much impossible for me to sweep up beans faster than Hayes can unsweep them? Now imagine the same scenario, but with Grant insisting on being the sweeper. And it's 90+ degrees out.)
It's safe to say that you will never see a sensory bin from me popping up on pinterest. (Such a wordy blog post from me, but I'm planning to re-read this the next time I see one of those cute sensory bins and think about trying to re-create it for my little tornadoes.)
But here's how it really went down (there was no time for 'before' pictures, this happened fast):
It took half an hour to clean up all of the beans (Did you know that it's pretty much impossible for me to sweep up beans faster than Hayes can unsweep them? Now imagine the same scenario, but with Grant insisting on being the sweeper. And it's 90+ degrees out.)
It's safe to say that you will never see a sensory bin from me popping up on pinterest. (Such a wordy blog post from me, but I'm planning to re-read this the next time I see one of those cute sensory bins and think about trying to re-create it for my little tornadoes.)
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