I’m so ready for spring! The flowers are blooming, the birds are chirping. And Sofie and I have been talking about bumblebees. Especially this weekend because she caught a little cold and for the first time ever, she got to taste a little honey to help coat her sore throat. To celebrate spring, we set up this fun little bumblebee sensory play table. This was so much fun we did a few different activities:
Colored Rice & Sprinkle Sensory: We used this little wooden tray, some simple black jimmies sprinkles and we used the yellow pastel food coloring for the rice. We used our little wooden scoop from Busy Littles to scoop and pour.
Flower Petal Rice Sorting: We used this amazing flower petal tray from Kinderspiel to sort white and yellow rice between the two trays.
Reading about Bees: Sofie loves these ThinkTouchLearn books, so we used this Little Critters Book to match the bees and talk about how bees make honey, honeycomb, and bee hives.
Button Sorting: I recently bought all of these amazing rainbow colored buttons for sensory tables and we used the Lovevery felt bowl and pinchers to pick out buttons and sort them by size. We also used the bumblebee antenna pipe cleaners to practice threading the buttons.
Bumblebee Flying: We used these amazing little felt bumblebees to fly them around the room, land them in the rice, and buttons. We also paired them with our Bugs Flashcards to talk about all of the little critters in the bumblebee world.
And of course we used our amazing little IKEA Flisat play table to hold the whole setup. Sofie’s best friend Bear Bear (Slumberkins Honey Bear) joined us for the fun because after all, bears love honey!
