Winter Diorama Ideas: Animals that Adapt in Winter

We have been talking a lot and gone really in depth with animal hibernation, adaptation and migration during Winter.

In this post, we made a hands-on activity inspiring Winter Diorama Ideas. Some people call it a sensory bin.

We used this bin with different animals as a sensory bin or a Winter diorama about animals that hibernate in Winter, but now, it is about animals that adapt in Winter.

Come see!

Animals that Adapt in Winter

There are many animals that don’t hibernate and that don’t migrate in Winter. Instead, they stay home and adapt to their environment exactly where they are.

You can read up some more on that in our post: Animals in Winter: What is Adaptation?

We also read books on adaptation and about animals that adoption Winter as well a printing these awesome 17 Printable Pictures of Animals that Adapt in Winter.

So now, we wanted to bring the lesson home with a fun (and a bit messy) hands-on diorama.

Preschool Sensory Bins

I was trying to come up with a way to use snow for this sensory bin, except that we don’t have snow here right now.

So I go creative.

I could’ve used fake insta-snow, but I decided to go with white flour. That’s right! I got a few neighbors to donate their expired or old white flour for us to use it for the sensory bin.

What you need is a shallow tray, a couple of miniature animal and tree replicas, beads of varied colors, flour or instant snow and a few props (empty bathroom rolls).

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Some Animals Adapt in Winter

After we read some books and we went through our adaptation lesson (linked below), we set up this awesome sensory bin.

We used an empty paper towel roll for a tree trunk and an empty cut-up piece of toilet paper roll for a cave and the other piece as a boulder.

The blue beads were the water, the brown is the soil around the water and the green beads can be a random patch of uncovered ground that isn’t covered in snow.

Take a look. My 4-year old practiced her fine motor skills to handle the pieces and animals very carefully. She liked changing positions for the animals and the trees.

It was fun talking about animal names, about how all of these animals adapt in Winter and about how we are doing a good job keeping pos of the flour inside the tray.

Animals in Winter Books

All About Animals in Winter (Celebrate Winter)Cold, Colder, Coldest: Animals That Adapt to Cold Polar Animal Adaptations (Amazing Animal Adaptations)Eckert Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations Animal Adaptations (My First Science Library 1-2)Animal Adaptations

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Winter Diorama Ideas

Alright, I hope you liked this idea. But if it is a bit too messy for you, then maybe you can try this paper Winter animal diorama instead. It is super cute and it is also perfect for fine motor skills. Make a Creative Winter Scene Diorama {Printable}

More Animals in Winter Resources

Thank you for visiting our Animals that Adapt in Winter sensory bin post!

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