Sensory bins are a great way for kindergarteners to work on academic and developmental skills in at home. In this post I’ve rounded up the best sensory bin ideas for kindergarteners to learn about nature and work on literacy skills, numeracy skills, STEM skills, and fine motor skills. 

With these sensory bin ideas kindergarten aged kids can have fun learning at home in a playful way!

Sensory Bin Ideas for Kindergarten at Home

These sensory bin ideas use basic craft and sensory play materials. They will help kindergarten age kids learn literacy skills such as letter recognition, phonics, sight words CVC words; numeracy skills such as number recognition, counting, number sense; STEM skills for science, technology, engineering and math; fine motor skills to strengthen the hand for handwriting and nature. 

Literacy Sensory Bin Ideas for Kindergarten at Home

Alphabet Soup Sensory Bin by Kindergarten Connection. With this simple sensory bin Kindergarteners will practice matching uppercase letters with lowercase letters. All you need for this sensory bin is magnetic letters, water, scoops and bowls. 

Learning Names Sensory Bin at Nurture Store. The purpose of this sensory bin is for kindergartners to learn to recognize the letters in their names and how to spell it. For this sensory bin you’ll need a sensory material and letters. 

Sound Matching Bin by Busy Toddler. This quick and easy phonics sensory bin is perfect for Kindergarteners learning the letter sounds. Simply collect objects in a sensory bin for the child to match the beginning sound to an alphabet chart. 

Fall Leaves CVC Word Building Sensory Bin by Kindergarten Connections. For Kindergarteners learning CVC words this sensory bin idea is lots of fun! Simply write letters on silk leaves with a permanent marker and place them in a bin. Then have your child build and write CVC words with the leaves. 

Sight Word Sensory Bin by Fun with Mama. Sensory bins are a great way for kindergarteners to practice sight word recognition. Create a simple sensory bin with their favorite sensory materials and add in sight word cards for them to find and read.

Numeracy Sensory Bin Ideas for Kindergarten at Home

Counting Worms Sensory Bin by Fantastic Fun and Learning. Kindergarteners can practice number recognition, counting and fine motor skills with this fun sensory bin! All you need is dry black beans and fake worms along with this printable die and some large tweezers.

Number Hunt Math Sensory Bin by Busy Toddler. This simple sensory bin is a fun way for kindergarteners to practice number recognition and counting. To prepare this sensory bin just fill a bin with rice or any other sensory material and hide some playing cards in it for your child to find and match to a number chart. 

Telling Time Matching Sensory Bin by Life Over C’s. This fun sensory bin will help your kindergartener learn to read clocks and tell the time. Simply add this printable to a sensory bin and have your child turn the analog clock to the time on the digital clock card. 

Rainbow Rice Addition Sensory Bin by Kindergarten Connection. This sensory bin idea is a great way for kindergartener to practice addition. Fill a bin with sensory material and some fun objects! Then have your child roll a dice, count out some objects then roll again and add the two numbers together. 

Domino Addition Sensory Bin by Keeping Up with Mrs. Harris.  This fun sensory bin uses dominoes to teach your kindergartener addition. It’s an easy bin to create around any theme! 

Nature Sensory Bin Ideas for Kindergarten at Home

Simple Nature Sensory Bin – A simple nature sensory bin such as this one uses a base of dried rice. Then you can easily add elements of natures that you would like to introduce to your kindergartener depending on the season such as flowers, nuts, seeds, fruit and berries.

Seashells Sensory Bin by Natural Beach Living. This simple seashell sensory bin is a great way to introduce your kindergartener to the different shapes, sizes and colors of seashells. You can even use this sensory bin to start teaching your kindergartner to identify seashells by name. 

Leaf Sensory Bin by Twin Mom Refreshed.  Introduce your kindergartener to the different shapes, sizes and colors of leaves with this simple nature sensory bin. To create this sensory bin simply collect all the different leaves from around your yard and neighborhood and place them in a bin. This is also a great way to start teaching your kindergartener to identify leaves and trees. 

Flower Sensory Soup by Living Life and Learning. Create this simple sensory bin and let your kindergartener explore different flowers. You can pick flowers from the backyard or buy a bouquet from the store for lots of variety. It’s a great way to teach your kindergartener the parts of flowers. 

Rock Sensory Bin by 3 Dinosaurs. Kindergarteners can learn all about the different types of rocks with this simple rock sensory bin. Simply add some special rocks or found rocks into a bin with smaller rocks of sensory filler material. 

STEM Sensory Bin Ideas for Kindergarten at Home

Engineering LEGO Sensory Bin by Little Bins with Little Hands. This cool STEM sensory bin would be so much fun for kindergarteners! Simply hide pieces of a LEGO set in a bin of rice and have your child find the pieces and build the LEGO set. 

Magnetic Sensory Bin by Mrs. Plemon’s Kindergarten. Magnets are a lot of fun! Add them to a sensory bin with some magnet wands and let your kindergartener discover the mystery of magnets!

Tide Pool Sensory Bin by Buggy and Buddy.

Ocean Pollution Sensory Bin by Must Have Mom. This cool science sensory bin teaches kindergarteners about the harmful effects of pollution in the ocean and how experts clean up the water and the animals. 

Fine Motor Sensory Bin Ideas for Kindergarten at Home

Rainbow Fine Motor Sensory Bin – This simple fine motor sensory bin uses colorful beads, buttons, plastic eggs and pipe cleaners. Kindergarteners will work on their fine motor skills through threading on pipe cleaners and opening and closing plastic eggs.

Super Sensory Scissor Skills Play with Spaghetti by Nurture Store. This is a fun and easy sensory bin to make. Boil up some spaghetti, add some color and put it in a bin with some scissors for a fun fine motor sensory bin for your kindergartener! 

Nuts and Bolts Sensory Bin by Preschool Powol Packets. A simple nuts and bolts sensory bin is a great way for kindergarteners to work on fine motor skills. All you need to do is collect nuts and bolts of various sizes, place them in a bin and let your kids have fun screwing and twisting them together. 

Lemon Squeeze Sensory Bin by Days with Grey. This simple sensory bin hits all the senses and is a fun way for kindergarteners to work on fine motor strengthening. Add a bunch of lemons and water to a bin with some large droppers and lemon press juicer for a really good fine motor muscle work out. 

Sunflower Sensory Bin by Life Over C’s. This bright colored sunflower sensory bin includes chopsticks and many small objects that will encourage your kindergartener to practice the fine motor skill of pinching. All you need is rice, sunflower seeds, little sunflowers and chopsticks for kids.

Feed the Baby Birds Fine Motor Sensory Bin by Modern Preschool.  This is another great sensory bin for kindergarteners that work on fine motor pinching. Using a clothespin kids can pick up the little worms from the sensory material and place them in a cup. 

Here are 25 sensory bin ideas for kindergarten that cover literacy, numeracy, STEM, nature and fine motor skills! I hope these ideas will make learning at home hands-on and super fun!