Garden Sensory Bin Riddles | Hey Riddle Riddle Inferencing | Spring SLP SPED
Product Description
These Garden Sensory Bin Riddles, part of the popular "Hey Riddle Riddle" series, target inferencing, listening comprehension, and garden vocabulary through a fun, hands-on sensory bin format. Students listen to a rhyming riddle, then dig through a garden-themed sensory bin to find the matching object or word. Perfect for spring, garden, and plant units.
🌱 Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting inferencing, attributes, feature/function, and Wh- Question goals
- Special Education teachers building spring, garden, and plant units
- Autism classrooms working on inferencing AND sensory integration in one activity
- Occupational Therapists working on sensory regulation and fine motor skills
- ABA therapists running discrete trial inferencing and listening comprehension programs
- Early Childhood, Pre-K, and Kindergarten teachers
- ELL/ESL teachers building descriptive English vocabulary
- Homeschool families with young learners
🌷 What's Included:
- A set of garden themed rhyming riddles
- Garden themed object/word matching pieces
- Multiple-use format — sensory bin, small group, or independent center
- Picture and word components for differentiated student levels
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Making inferences, attribute identification, feature/function/class, descriptive vocabulary, garden and plant vocabulary (seeds, soil, watering can, shovel, flowers, vegetables, and more), listening comprehension, Wh- Questions, riddle solving, sensory integration, fine motor skills, word-to-picture matching, expressive and receptive language, and following directions.
Sample Riddle:
"We dug all the holes.
And we pulled all the weeds.
We tore open the package —
and poured in the _________." (seeds)
How to Use:
Fill a sensory bin with garden-themed sensory fill (soil, black beans, green rice, kinetic sand, fake grass, craft "seeds"). Hide the matching object and word pieces inside. The teacher or therapist reads each riddle aloud, and students dig through the bin to find the matching garden object that completes the rhyme. The sensory experience plus the inferencing challenge keeps students engaged and regulated at the same time.
🌻 Ways to Use:
- Spring, garden, plant, and Earth Day thematic units
- Speech therapy inferencing and Wh- Question sessions
- Inferencing IEP goal data collection
- Independent work systems (TEACCH)
- ABA discrete trial inferencing training
- Sensory bin centers and morning tubs
- Garden and plant vocabulary lessons
- ESL/ELL spring vocabulary lessons
- Take-home and tele-therapy practice
- Sensory regulation and self-regulation activities
For more hands-on spring or garden activities, please see the following link:
