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My Sensory Bucket

  • Posted by Victoria Hackett
  • Categories The Seedling BLOG
  • Date July 29, 2016
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My Sensory Bucket

This summer I had the honor of participating in the Fairy Dust Teaching Virtual Summer Conference as a guest speaker. It was exciting to share my STEAM Outdoors Workshop. The best part about attending conferences is leaving with nuggets of inspiration. At this virtual conference, I was introduced to Tom Bedard and his work with Sand and Water Tables.

I played around with the new concepts that I learned and explored different ways to create an easy way to create a “sensory table” outdoors. I created a Sensory Bucket as a beginning. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to try out my NEW Sensory Bucket with the kids at The REAL Program in Lynn, MA.

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As teachers, we all know that young children love to transport. This workshop taught me how to incorporate holes and levels to your sensory table and how they add a variety of opportunities for children to transport. At the REAL Program, I witnessed children of all ages become engineers while exploring how to create a mechanism that plays the act of transporting.

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Using loose parts children were also drawn to sorting and counting.

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My Sensory Bucket was so simple and can be used both inside and out. Now I want to hear from you. Do you have a sensory area in your Outdoor Classroom? Can you make a Sensory Bucket? Share your picture and stories below.

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Victoria Hackett

ABOUT VICTORIA:
My mission is for every child in every school to have access to an Outdoor Classroom. Therefore, I inspire educators to teach outdoors and lead an on-line virtual community of Natural Teachers all over the world to create their own Outdoor Classroom story.

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  1. anne
    August 6, 2016
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    I love the holes in the water table cover. They will change the way the children play. I have heard that an aquarium tank aerator is a great addition too. I like the idea of the free standing board with holes and track. An old Connect Four might work well to hold track up.

  2. ceciliapalazetti@gmail.com
    August 5, 2016
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    During the summer my co-workers and me were very excited with the idea of building a big water table/wall for outside play. Unfortunately we got a little too overwhelmed and couldn’t figure out where to start and we ended up buying a set of to make a water wall at our water table. It was “the easy way out” but it still gave the children a chance to build/ add up to the wall and create different set ups every day. We did, however follow through with an idea of making a music wall, using different things, our favourite being small cuts of bamboo – they sound great even with just the wind blowing!

    • anne
      August 6, 2016
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      I love the sound of bamboo. I will ue your idea. I was thinking of hanging small metal washers for a windchime but the bamboo is a prettier sound.

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