We love our sensory bin container and are always look for new ways to use it. We borrowed and adapted this idea from Busy Toddler. She often shares different ideas to wash toys and incorporate "baths" with your beloved sensory bin. We got this bin from Target, but you can really use any sized bin you'd like. I think the "under the bed" bins work best. They give you more space to play and the sides aren't too high for little arms to have much trouble reaching inside. Once you have your bin, then you can start incorporating different themed ideas to celebrate holidays, seasons, and just things that your kids love. We had visited a local pumpkin patch. Part of the admission was that you got to select your own pumpkin from the "patch" to take home with you. The nice thing about the included pumpkins was that they weren't huge carving pumpkins. They were a nice kid-sized pumpkin. The kids got to pick their pumpkins and bring them home for all the activities we had planned. When we picked the pumpkins from the "patch," they were actually super dirty, so this activity just naturally seemed to happen. We decided to give our pumpkins a special bath. I added water to the sensory bin (spread out a large tablecloth/towel/mat underneath for any spilling water). You could definitely do this outside if the weather is nice by you. Here it was still pretty hot in the afternoon by the time we got home, so we wanted to wash pumpkins inside. Add some Dawn dishsoap or even some bubble bath. Since we aren't eating the pumpkins, we really just want to get them clean with the most gentle soap for kids that we can use. We made sure to make bubbles though, because that adds the fun! I had some travel tooth brushes on-hand to use for scrubbing. We had washcloths for washing and extra towels for drying. Once the pumpkins were cleaned off, they were ready for our next activities and they were allowed to wait in the house for those!
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