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Ice Age Bin

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This Ice Age Bin is PERFECT for hot days (it’s still super hot where we are!). Kid’s find ice so fascinating and adding safari animals to the bin is a super fun idea! My kids had such a great time feeling the slippery, cold ice and playing with their safari animals trying to place them on each ice cube.

I love how easy it is to set up this Ice Age bin. In fact, this is why I do bins quite often, they take no effort for the parents!

RELATED: Pom-pom Sensory Bin

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Materials:

–Safari Animals

–Flat Storage bin

-Ice

 

Instructions:

Dump the ice into your flat bin, add the safari animals and that’s it!

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What is my child learning?

-Small/fine motor skills (touching the ice cubes, playing with the animals)

Hand-eye coordination / balancing (placing and balancing the animals onto the ice cubes)

-Sensory play (kids are touching the ice cubes, feeling the cold, playing with animals)

-Focus

-Independent play (this is an awesome activity to give kids to stay busy with)

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Have fun with this Ice Age bin and if you try it let me know in the comments if your kids loved it!

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  1. April says

    September 5, 2018 at 11:53 am

    Fun! Now that my children are a little older (ages 6 and 9), I do something similar to this but with a twist. I freeze small toys into bins of water overnight, and then, I let them chip the ice away with a hammer the next day. They think this is great fun! It’s a great way to encourage outdoor play on a hot summer day.

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    • Veronika says

      September 6, 2018 at 1:10 pm

      Oh that sounds like a lot of fun! I have to try that next time:)

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