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    Home » Chicken Life Cycle Sensory Bin

    Chicken Life Cycle Sensory Bin

    April 3, 2017 By Emma Vanstone 2 Comments

    This hands-on chicken life cycle sensory bin is brilliant for working on fine motor skills, whilst introducing the concept of a life cycle. We used a chicken as the example as most children are familiar with eggs and chickens making it a little easier to understand.

    chicken life cycle made with rice and small chickens

    What you’ll need:

    • Plastic eggs – the hen lays an egg, which can only become a chick if fertilized by a cockerel.
    • Chicks – the chick hatches from an egg by pecking a hole in the shell.
    • Feathers – chicks are covered with fluffy feathers to keep them warm
    • Hen and cockerel models – chicks grow into chickens!
    • Rice or pasta – these can be left plain or dyed yellow using food colouring.
    • Tweezers
    • Paper Plate
    • Pens

    How to make a chicken life cycle sensory bin

    Pour the rice or pasta into a tray. If you want to use coloured rice, simply pour some rice into a sealable bag, add some food colouring, give it a good shake so all the rice is covered and leave to dry.

    Spread the eggs, chicks, feathers and hen around the tray.

    Ask the children to tweezers to pick out each part of the chicken life cycle in order and place on a paper plate.

    Children can then draw arrows between items to show the order of the life cycle.

    chicken life cycle on a paper plate made with a toy chicken, chick and pom pom egg

    More Life Cycle Actvity Ideas

    Can you make a sensory bin for a frog life cycle? How would it be different?

    Can you create a food chain featuring a chicken?

    chicken life cycle made with yellow and green rice and toy chicks

    Did you know chickens are the most common bird on earth and hens can lay around 300 eggs every year!

    More life cycle activity ideas

    Try our easy edible butterfly life cycle

    Or how about these minibeast life cycle activity ideas?

    We love this frog craft life cycle from Still Playing School.

    This butterfly life cycle necklace is lovely from Fun-a-Day.

    Playdough to Plato has some super cute life cycle hats

    We’ve also got some more minibeast life cycle activities here.

    Image of a chicken life cycle sensory bin made with green and yellow rice and chicken toys

    butterfly paper plate life cycle, frog life cycle and chicken sensory bin

    Last Updated on March 10, 2022 by Emma Vanstone

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    Science Sparks ( Wild Sparks Enterprises Ltd ) are not liable for the actions of activity of any person who uses the information in this resource or in any of the suggested further resources. Science Sparks assume no liability with regard to injuries or damage to property that may occur as a result of using the information and carrying out the practical activities contained in this resource or in any of the suggested further resources.

    These activities are designed to be carried out by children working with a parent, guardian or other appropriate adult. The adult involved is fully responsible for ensuring that the activities are carried out safely.

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    1. Anthony

      July 19, 2017 at 8:55 am

      That looks so amazing and interesting! Thanks a lot for sharing! I love it, I can’t wait to try

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