Creating themed sensory bins is a fun way to kick off holiday or season festivities with kids. With both fall and Halloween upcoming, my kids have gotten to experience a variety of bins as I couldn’t decide which ideas I liked better so I made multiple themed sensory bins.

When I was thinking about how to create a Halloween sensory bin for my kids, I immediately thought about the glow in the dark Pluffle that I had in our stash. My kids have enjoyed playing with this previously in a dark room, but I wanted to find a way for it to also be enjoyed out in the main play space.

Adding a blacklight was a great solution, plus it allowed other items to be included in the bin because they were blacklight activated, but didn’t glow in the dark.

I picked up some glowing skeletons, glow in the dark bats, glow in the dark spiders, and also included some mini bones that I originally purchased for my Bluey themed sensory dough.

Emmett immediately wanted to play with the bin when he saw it on the counter. The blacklight I have requires an outlet so we played with the bin on the kitchen counter, but there are some great battery-powered lights available as well.

Pluffle is such an interesting (almost creepy) texture, it has the look that it is alive and moving as it expands which makes it even more ideal for this Halloween sensory bin.

I’ve compiled a list of these ideas along with other fun glow in the dark products on my Amazon storefront that would be great additions to a glowing Halloween sensory bin.