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Baby Bins, Colors

Baby Bins: Gray

December 15, 2017

I can’t believe we are finishing up our last color bin! We are going to take a break from colors for some holiday fun, then we will celebrate all of our color earning with a rainbow theme. But until then, get excited about gray!

These gray themed sensory bins and activities are great for learning colors and completely baby safe. Baby Bins are the perfect way to learn, build language, play and explore with little ones between 12-24 months old.

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Here is a look at what we planned for our second set of 6 color themed baby bins:

Here are the details for each of our activities:

One Gray Mouse by Katherine Burton is one of our favorite gray themed read aloud. These Baby Bin plans are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Gray Read Aloud:

One Gray Mouse by Katherine Burton was a great book for our baby bins because it not only reviewed the colors, but also focused on counting and animals.  Never too early to start embedding that math vocabulary!

This gray themed sensory bin is great for learning colors and is completely baby safe. These Baby Bin plans are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Gray Sensory Bin:

Gray Shredded Paper
Toy Animals
Cookie Cutters
Play Jewelry
One Gray Mouse by Katherine Burton
Play Coins
Play Silverware

Play ideas for this bin:
1. Find the gray animals.
2. Make pretend cookies.
3. Put on the silver jewelry.
4. Read the Gray Mouse book.
5. Vacuum up the paper shreds for days.

This gray poky play activity is great for building fine motor skills and is completely baby safe. These Baby Bin plans are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Gray Poky Play:

We’ve done the pipe cleaner and strainer activity before, but for our gray theme I pulled out just the silver pipe cleaners and silver colander. Aubrey worked on building fine motor skills by poking the silver pipe cleaners into the strainer. I cut the pipe cleaners in half so they were a bit easier to poke through without bending. Easy easy quiet activity.

This mouse paint in a bag activity is great for building fine motor skills and is a completely baby safe way to paint with little ones. Baby Bins are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Mouse Paint in a Bag:

For this baby safe painting activity, I drew a mouse outline on a ziplock bag then added a few drops of white and black paint. Then, I sealed it up for some fun no mess and no stress painting. Aubrey used her fingers, sponges and foam brushes to smush the paint around and mix it together to make gray.

This gray foil painting activity is great for building fine motor skills and is a completely baby safe way to paint with little ones. Baby Bins are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Gray Foil Painting:

For some more color mixing, I made a batch of white and black yogurt finger paint. (To make this taste safe paint, mix Greek yogurt with food coloring.) We used it to paint on aluminum foil. Aubrey used various brushes and even her fingers to mix and create fun textures.

This gray color collage is great for learning the color gray and it is a completely baby safe craft. Plus there's no glue required so no sticky mess or glue eating to clean up! Baby Bins are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Gray Color Collage:

At the end of each color week we are making a color collage that I will put together in a book for Aubrey to flip through.   To make the gray book page, I first cut out a large rectangle from the center of 2 pieces of gray cardstock. Then I cut two pieces of contact paper that were slightly bigger than the gray rectangles.     I took the backing off of one piece of contact paper and stuck one rectangle on it.  Then I gave Aubrey a tray full of gray pictures, stickers, sequins, and feathers to create a gray collage.   

After she was finished, I glued the second gray rectangle on top of the first and pressed the remaining piece of contact paper over the top to seal the collage inside. Next, I trimmed the excess contact paper around the rectangle.  I hole punched the top corner and added it to a small metal ring with our red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, brown, black, and white collage pages to form a unique color flip book.  

Want all of this week’s color themed activities for baby bins?  You can grab them here:
On my site : Baby Bins: Colors {Plans and Printables}
On TpT: Baby Bins: Colors {Plans and Printables}

Tons of color themed activities and ideas. Weekly plans include a book and 5 activities to try out (a mixture of sensory bins, crafts, fine motor and gross motor activities)! These Baby Bin plans are perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old.

Or you can grab our entire year of themes and plans:
On my site here: Baby Bin Bundle On TpT here: Baby Bin Bundle

A full year of Baby Bin plans and printables, perfect for learning with little ones between 12-24 months old. Weekly plans include a book and 5 activities to try out (a mixture of sensory bins, crafts, fine motor and gross motor activities)!

Then check out the rest of our 35+ themes on the Baby Bins Curriculum Main Page.

by Jessica 
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Bright ideas for the little learners ~ Mrs. Plemons' Kindergarten is an education blog dedicated to fresh, engaging, and fun teaching ideas for toddlers, preschoolers, and the primary classroom.

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