Pesach, Pesach! Play All About It: Frogs Are Jumping Everywhere Sensory Bin

Frogs here, frogs there, frogs are jumping everywhere! You know you're getting ready for Pesach when parents and teachers kvell over their children playing about plagues and slavery. Many of the topics of this holiday may be a bit dark and intense. Children learn and work through dark and intense emotions through play and in the spirit of keeping things age appropriate and play-based, we love to play about the plague of frogs each year!

This year I set up our sensory bin as a frog pond! It's in our kitchen, which allows the boys to be nearby while we get some of the other things in there ready. Because I included some smaller parts, Y will need some support to play or a version with only larger objects to play more independently. I love to include a piece of art or photography in our sensory play area for inspiration. In our bin itself, I mixed natural objects like rocks, driftwood, tree circles and tree blocks along with man-made materials like plastic toy frogs, artificial flowers and leaves, glass gems and a plastic "grass" mat that was actually intended to be a bottle drying rack but never used for that purpose in this house! I added water, some drops of blue and yellow food coloring and debated whether to pick up S early from school to play or play in it myself! Most of the the materials were purchased at the Dollar Tree or a craft supply store and you can really add as much or little as you'd like to make your own Frog Pond sensory bin. I'm hopping--I mean, hoping, that this will be a big hit as we get ready for Pesach here. You might just see these frogs again next time in a process art activity....

Until then, Hoppy Playing!