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Your little ones will be so excited to get their hands on this corn life cycle preschool printable and sensory bin. Also, you’ll love my page Fall Season Unit Study {Pumpkins, Leaves, Corn, & More}.

The sensory bin and foldout are both great ways to learn about corn, its life cycle, the different parts, terminology, and even the different ways we can enjoy or use corn.

My printable shows your preschooler how corn grows in all its stages from planting to harvest in a simple and fun fold-out that they can color.

Then the perfect hands-on activity to go along with your corn life cycle preschool printable is a fun corn-themed sensory bin that they can dig into.

Items We Get From Corn

We get a lot of products that we use every day from corn.

This is a great time to talk about that with your child while they color in their fold-out or dig into the sensory bin.

To get you started here is a list of some of the things that corn makes:

• Corn on the Cob
• Canned Corn
• Corn meal
• Grits
• Corn Syrup
• Corn Chips Cornstarch
• Crayons
• Toothpaste
• Popcorn

Also, look at more preschool corn activities.

More Corn Life Cycle Preschool Activities

I grabbed one of my favorite resources and both Farm and Food Anatomy had a page on corn, including the parts of the corn plant, varieties, and fun facts.

These are great to have out while your child explores the sensory bin.

• Food Anatomy is even great for preschoolers with its pretty illustrations and small snippets of information that will keep them interested

• And Farm Anatomy is always a great reference for farm and food-related topics.

• Make popcorn to enjoy together for a healthy and delicious snack that ties right into the lesson.

• To incorporate some early math skills you can also add a die to the corn sensory bin to have your child roll a number and count out the coordinating amount of corn kernels.

• Add 2 for older children and they can practice addition and subtraction using the kernels as a manipulative.

• Explore different corn products with your child, placing some items from the list above for your child to look at and investigate.

• Teach your preschooler how to shuck corn, not only is it a great idea for dinner but it helps develop your child’s fine motor skills.

Follow the directions to print and cut out the corn life cycle printable, let your child color their corn images before cutting them out.

• This Dancing Corn Experiment is a fun science activity that requires very little prep or setup and will fascinate your child.

• Incorporate math skills like number recognition and fine motor skills with the Preschool Corn Counting Activity.

Corn Activities to Include Older Children

In addition, here are a few activities to include about corn for older your children.

• Popcorn Science Mini Unit Study Which Brand Pops the Best
• Geronimo Stilton Field Trip to Niagara Falls Summary And Fun Corn Craft
• Free Lapbook on Fall Season Unit Study {Pumpkins, Leaves, Corn, & More}.

Finally, look at some ideas for corn preschool sensory bin.

Corn Life Cycle Preschool Sensory Bin

For the sensory bin you will need:

• A shallow container, preferably with a lid
• Whole feed corn
• Spoons and scoops
• Small containers
• Corn toys

Start by pouring corn into your shallow container a couple of inches deep,

 I found this perfect-sized container at my dollar tree. You can even use a baking pan or sheet to hold your sensory bin materials.

You can find whole-feed corn at your local feed store (Tractor Supply, Rural King, and even Walmart).

If you can’t find it you can use popcorn or cracked corn that is sold for feeding birds in its place.

Add a few scoops and spoons, as well as a container or two for filling and pouring for fine motor development and hand-eye coordination-important prewriting skills.

If you have a preschooler chances are that you have some pretend food in their toys, chances are also good that there is some corn in the mix.

Grab it and add it to the sensory bin, you can also get real corn shucked and unshucked but if you have a child who is very sensory and likes to taste everything you might want to skip using real corn.

We had several plastic corns on the cobs as well as a pretend can of corn and a corn from this Safari Fruits and Vegetables Toob .

Add flashcards or small photos of corn, I did a quick watercolor to put in our sensory bin.

You can also add letters to spell out corn using Scrabble tiles or letter beads to help your child with word and beginning letter recognition.

Finally, pop in your corn life cycle printable.

Set your bin up, you may want to put a sheet or shower curtain liner underneath to catch the mess for an easy cleanup.