Treasure Hunt {Sensory Sink}

Arrr matey, do you have a treasure lover in your house? Well we do here. My kids have these fake golden coins I got them at a craft store a few years ago and they love playing with them. It started out they just carried them around in their pirate bags. They now use them as money in their play store and buy things. We have gone on an indoor treasure hunt with them and recently played with them in our St. Patrick’s Day sensory sink. These coins were a great investment. You can sometimes find them at dollar stores and even at the craft stores. I don’t remember paying much for them. 

Well, here is just one more way we played with them. A treasure themed sensory sink.  This week on Sensory Sink Sunday the theme is treasure. (Info post for it HERE will explain a sensory sink as well.)   Make sure to stop over and see what fun My Nearest and Dearest had with the treasure theme sensory sink this week.

 

small toys, small bottle, small bowls, shovel, blue jello, cake mix, and a sign(made with paper and markers).  I almost forgot I hat his pirate hat in the bathroom in case he wanted to wear it.  He couldn’t play without it wanting to fall off so we left it on the counter.

 

What I did:

I made 2 boxes of blue jello.  Once the jello had set I filled half the sink with it.  The other half of the sink I filled with yellow cake mix I had left over from our cake batter rice krispy treats we made. I hid some gold coins under the jello and “sand”(cake mix). I set out the toys we had around the sink and put the little message in a bottle, shovel, and treasure map in the sink.  The toys I bought at toys r us awhile back and finally had a fun idea to get them out.  The little bottle was an empty peppermint extract bottle I saved. I wrote a quick note on it so big brother would be surprised to find a message in his bottle. I taped our sign to the mirror.  Last, I called big brother in to play in his treasure hunt sensory sink.