Sensory Box - Pinto Beans and Letters

Today I put dry pinto beans and the fridge alphabet letters in our sensory box.  My three year olds had a blast scooping and dumping, and occasionally pulling out letters.  I grabbed a couple of ice cream buckets for them to scoop into, they liked that.

My four year olds loved the sensory box too.  I found some empty large spice containers (the ones from Sam's Club) and put them in the box.  The kiddos loved filling the containers and then raining the beans back into the box.  They also worked on forming a bean volcano and later on collecting the "seeds" for spring time.  Great imaginary play.