Valentine’s Treasure Dig

My little guy N loves simple sensory activities! Rice is a particular favorite. He actually did his first activity with rice when he wasn’t even 6 months old yet! {Check out the post, it’s super cute 🙂 }

This time, in preparation for Valentine’s Day, I set up a simple Valentine’s Treasure Dig in a box full of rice for him!

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Materials for Valentine’s Treasure Dig:

• Rice.
• Jumbo tweezers.
• Small Valentine’s themed items. We used foam heart stickers, Valentine’s erasers, gold coins, a paper straw, a hearts necklace, pipe cleaners, and more. Anything you have on hand and that you’re comfortable with giving to a toddler under supervision works great!
• Shoe box sized storage bin. {I like to keep the sensory bin smaller for young toddlers, and these shoe boxes are perfect for us.}
• Shower liner (optional).

It was very easy to set up this activity. It didn’t take N long to come over and take a look, either 😉

To peak his interest, I’d placed some of the items on top of the rice and lightly covered the rest of them.

He really liked the tweezers! It was the first time I offered them to him, and he spent a lot of time exploring them. It wasn’t easy for him to actually pick up the items, but he kept trying.

The heart necklace was another favorite!

N took his time picking all of the items out of the rice and inspecting all of them. Most of them weren’t familiar to him yet.

I’d actually given N two sensory bins for this activity to encourage him not to dump the rice on the shower liner he was playing on. It didn’t really work out that way, but N did enjoy transferring items and rice from one box to the other and back 🙂

If you’re looking for more sensory activities using rice, check out 10 Simple Sensory Bins with Rice!

15 Valentine’s Day Toddler Activities includes many other awesome ideas for seasonal sensory play, crafts, and more!

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Tina

Hi, I’m Tina! I have a toddler and a preschooler, and I blog at Simple Fun for Kids where I share printables and simple ideas for crafts, sensory, science, and art activities for kindergartners, preschoolers, toddlers, and babies.
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