Heart-Themed Sight Word Search Sensory Bin
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It is that time of the year: hearts, all things red, pink, and white, and love all around! Yes, Valentine’s Day is coming and we just love learning in fun ways like with this Heart-Themed Sight Word Search Sensory Bin! It is such a fun, hands-on activity for your February literacy centers, or use it at a Valentine’s Day class party!
*Pair with our EDITABLE February Sight Word Games and Centers for Early Learners!
Heart-Themed Sight Word Search Sensory Bin
Set up a sensory heart tray with dried rose petals and your kids will have a blast searching for sight words. Let’s get started with some simple supplies!
You will need:
- Heart-shaped trays (or any trays will do)
- Heart cards (ours are from precut corrugated board but using a heart punch on cardstock works great too!)
- Dried rose petals or fake rose petals
- Marker
- White paper
How to Set Up the Sensory Bin
To begin, write sight words on the heart cut-outs to make sight word cards for matching.
Next, cut a large piece of paper in the shape of a heart to match one of the trays. Trace the heart cut-outs onto the paper that you just cut. Write sight words in the hearts for students to match up!
Add the rose petals to one tray and place the large paper heart in the other tray.
Then, mix the heart cards into the rose petals so that kids have to search for the sight words (their favorite part!).
The idea is to find the heart sight word cards and match them to the words written on the heart-shaped paper.
RELATED RESOURCE: Valentine’s Day Centers and Activities for Pre-K & Kindergarten
For a fun twist, we like to see how quickly we can fill up the paper! For individual students, we use a timer and try to beat our previous time.
If we are playing in partners, we take turns to see who can finish in a certain time. Or make two sets and play simultaneously to see who finishes first!
You can change up the petals to a different sensory material and the sight word cards to any other shape for a non-seasonal sight word search to keep this fun going in other months, too!
This sight word search sensory bin is the perfect activity for practicing sight words in a hands-on way!
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