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Preschool Counting Rain Sensory Bin

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As spring and summer storms start rolling in it can be helpful to learn more about the weather and rain. Set up this simple rain sensory bin for toddler sensory play, or add in our free printable rain counting cards to extend the idea and work on counting and number sense activities with preschoolers and kindergarteners.

Easy weather sensory bin for counting and number acitivities during a preschool rain theme #preschool #spring #freeprintable

FIND EVEN MORE PLAYFUL LEARNING IDEAS IN OUR PRINTABLE RAIN THEME AND LESSON PLANS.

Materials for Rain Sensory Bin

  • Cotton Balls
  • Blue Glass Beads (or another rain alternative)
  • Sparkly Gold Tinsel Stems (trimmed into thirds and bent into zig zags)
  • Optional: Free printable rain counting cards (link below)

Easy Weather Sensory Bin

For toddlers set up the sensory bin as an invitation to play and explore different textures. They’ll work with the materials in a variety of ways. You’ll likely notice them lining items up, sorting them, and beginning to make patterns.

Easy Preschool Weather Sensory Bin for Preschool Rain Theme #preschool #raintheme

For preschoolers and kindergarteners add in the free printable number cards.

Rain Theme Math Activity

In small group or indpendently, kids can count out sets of items to match the number card.  As they do so they are working on number recognition and making sets.

Number Sense for Weather Theme and Rain in preschool

For kids who are ready to extend the activity you can incorporate number sense by having them identify the number that is one less than the number on the card and making a set to match that number. Then identify the number that is one more than the number on the card and make a set to match that number as shown above.

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Get a full week of playful rain theme learning ideas!

Save time and get right to the playful learning with our printable lesson plan sets. Each set includes over 30 playful learning activities related to the theme, and we’ve provided different versions for home preschool families and classroom teachers so all activities are geared directly toward your needs.

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Preschool Classroom Rain Theme Lesson Plans

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