Make a Color Sorting Sensory Bag with Your Kids: Super Easy & Squishy

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Squish a simple sensory bag for easy color sorting and sensory play fun that preschoolers and toddlers will love! This color sorting sensory bag is super easy to make, too.

I created a simple sensory bag with buttons and it turned into a color sorting game for the kids during one of the free activity challenges. The challenge was to make a sensory bag!

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Make a Super Easy Squishy Color Sorting Sensory Activity with Your Kids!

To make your own color sorting sensory bag, you’ll need:

1-2 gallon freezer bags per person (we used a ziplock bag)
Clear hair gel (or hand soap, shampoo or conditioner, lotion)
Buttons or pom poms in your target colors
Sharpie markers
Tape, (masking tape, duct tape, or painter’s tape)

Squeeze your hair gel substance into one sealable baggy. If you don’t have hair gel on hand, and kind of soap or lotion works well for this.

Put enough in there so that there will be good coverage once the bag is lying flat.

Make sure you seal the bag really, really well. You could double bag it to seal it better and make sure to contain any mess that may happen.

I inserted two colors of buttons into each sensory bag and taped it to the table. Choose any color of the rainbow you want your child to work on.

Here’s a quick video:

I created two of these squishy bags so Louis and George could both play with them, but it turned out to be fun for Henry too.

A color sorting sensory bag for learning colors (and a fine motor activity too!)

For Louis’s bag, I just left it as is. He’s still grasping the whole color recognition thing and wouldn’t have the patience to sort the colors.

He simply enjoyed moving the buttons around in the hair gel, loving the sensory experience.

When the older two got a hold of the sensory bags, I added sorting “sections” for each color.

Quick Prep to Make it a Color Sorting Sensory Bag

First, I drew on the plastic bags with permanent markers in the different colors.

I drew big circles in colors that matched the buttons.

I also wrote the name of the colors as well.

Then, the kids then pushed the buttons around in the baggy to fit into the correctly colored circles.

It became quite a fine motor task!

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They wanted to do it over and over again, so I erased the permanent marker with a Magic Eraser (affiliate link) and drew new sections for them to sort their colors into!