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Football Sensory Bin

By Shaunna Evans 6 Comments · This content may contain affiliate links.

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The Virtual Book Club for Kids is reading books by Bill Martin Jr this month. We happen to be big football fans, so when I came across Little Granny Quarterback I immediately knew we had to share this fun book with you.

Have you read it? It’s a really cute rhyming story about Granny going back to help her old team win the big game. We had lots of fun reading it in our best sports announcer voices.

Football Sensory Play for Kids---Fun play idea for game day or little sports lovers

After reading the book we put together this football sensory bin. It was a fun way to extend the book, and now we can also pull it out as a fun play activity for the kids on game day.

Football Sensory BinMaterials

Our bin is garnet and gold because we are Florida State fans. By switching out a couple of ingredients you could also make the bin reflect the colors of your favorite team.

  • Corn kernels
  • Dark red kidney beans
  • Garnet and gold glass beads
  • Football beads (Available on Amazon. Purchased at JoAnn’s.)
  • Small toy footballs (Purchased at a party store.)

FSU Play Activity for Kids

Last Monday was our first game of the season, so I set up this bin as an invitation to play earlier that day. Tinker was excited to dive right in.

Football Sensory Tub

First she explored the sensation of digging through the beans and feeling them on her hands.

Toddler Sensory Play

Then she started her usual routine of closely examining each of the elements in the bin. Watching her do this is one of my favorite parts of introducing a new sensory bin. First she talked about the color—correctly identified as FSU gold! Then she realized it was see through, so she spent some time looking at it through the light.

Toddler Play Activities

We often incorporate scented items into our sensory bins, so she decided to see if this one smelled good. She wasn’t impressed!

Florida State Sensory Bin

Then she moved on to the footballs, which she decided weren’t see through like the beads.

We’ll be pulling our football sensory bin out on game days throughout football season.

Now that we’ve shared our activity with you, we’re excited to see what you came up with! Please link up your Bill Martin Jr. inspired posts to the blog hop linky below. 

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  1. Link up only posts inspired by Bill Martin Jr.’s  books that share book inspired crafts, activities, recipes, etc. Any other posts will be deleted.
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  3. Add our Virtual Book Club button to your post if you’d like.

Virtual Book Club for Kids  Stop by and check out some of the other blogs that participate in The Virtual Book Club for Kids. Toddler Approved– The Educators’ Spin On It– Rainy Day Mum– 3 Dinosaurs– Learn~Play~Imagine– Crafty Moms Share– Reading Confetti– Inspiration Laboratories– Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas– Kids Yoga Stories– Enchanted Homeschooling Mom– Ready-Set-Read– Boy Mama Teacher Mama– PlayDrMom– Fantastic Fun and Learning– Growing Book by Book– Royal Baloo– The Outlaw Mom® Blog– Kitchen Counter Chronicles–Teach Preschool If you are looking for more book-related activities to try now, check out the Virtual Book Club for Kids Pinterest Board. Looking Ahead to Future Virtual Book Club Authors We’re excited to announce the author list for the upcoming year. Mark your calendars so you can join in and read along with us! Virtual Book Club Author List for 2013-2014This post has been shared at some of these fantastic link parties.

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Filed Under: Book Related Activities, Fall, Invitations to Play, Sensory, Toddler, Virtual Book Club for Kids Tagged With: Bill Martin Jr, football, sensory bin

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  1. Megan Sheakoski

    September 16, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    SO creative! I’m featuring it later today on my after school post too! Woo hoo!

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    • Shaunna

      September 22, 2013 at 4:39 am

      Thanks, Megan! I love that we could do a football themed activity…one of my favorite parts of fall! Thanks for the feature.

      Reply
  2. stephanie

    September 9, 2013 at 11:16 pm

    I think this has to be my favorite sensory bin I have seen. So different and so timely! Love it!

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    • Shaunna

      September 13, 2013 at 9:23 pm

      Thank you! I’ve been dreaming of this bin…just a bit of a football girl! Glad you like it, too!

      Reply
  3. Jackie Higgins

    September 9, 2013 at 9:51 pm

    Oh, I haven’t heard of this book, but it sounds perfect for fall. I think my boys will love it. Thanks for the recommendation.

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    • Shaunna

      September 13, 2013 at 9:25 pm

      Oh, I hope they have it at your library. So cute! My oldest got such a kick out of the idea that Grandma was a famous football player!

      Reply

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