Sensory box filled with dry pinto beans Sensory box filled with dry long grained white rice As an educator, I know the importance of learning through touch and working on fine motor coordination. I also have learned that in early education, this is often done through a sensory box or station. I remember in preschool LOVING the water table, or coming in to see what fun things I could find under piles of sand, beans, rice, noodles and etc. As a mama and neat-freak, the words "Sensory Box" makes me nervous with the possible mess that could happen within the first 3 seconds of Levi exploring. Then I asked myself a question that I often ask myself in all areas of life, "What is the worst thing that could happen?" My two worse case scenarios were: 1) Levi would dump the box all over the floor and I would have to clean it up. 2) Levi would eat whatever I used as my sensory station "filler"...