Camouflage Sensory Book Activity With The Invisible Lizard

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My kids loved looking for the chameleon on each page in the Invisible Lizard by Kurt Cyrus & illustrated by Andy Atkins. This inspired the sensory play bins I made as follow-up activities for them.

Materials for the Camouflage Sensory Tray

Green colored rice
Painted chickpeas
Legumes
Book- Invisible Lizard by Kurt Cyrus & illustrated by Andy Atkins
Sensory bin

Here are the original materials I thought I was going to use for this tray. The bag of painted quinoa was switched for legumes.

Tools and Additional Loose Parts:

Bugs, insects, chameleon, monkey, parrot animal figurines
Hand lens
Tongs, scoops, cups, brushes, and magnifying glasses

Process to Set Up Camouflage Sensory Bin:

Scoop the legumes around the tray to form a tree branch.
Fill in the rest of the base of the tray with rice.
Then add some chickpeas around the legume tree branches to form leaves.
Add some figurines from the book; Chameleon, monkey, butterfly, etc.
Set up tools and additional bug & insect figurines.
Read the book to your child and have fun with the sensory play.

Above is how I made the camouflage sensory tray.

Additional Activities with these materials

Try having your child retell the story, by acting out a scene from the book using animal figurines in the tray.
Using scoops and cups practice capacity and ask your children to fill different size containers with the rice and chickpeas.

Chameleon Camouflage Sensory Activity

Materials for the Camouflage Chameleon Sensory Bin:

Green colored rice
Painted chickpeas
Legumes
Gems (multiple colors)
Book- Invisible Lizard by Kurt Cyrus & illustrated by Andy Atkins
Sensory bin

Tools and Additional Loose Parts:

Bugs, insects, chameleon, monkey, parrot animal figurines
Hand lens
Tongs, scoops, cups, brushes, and magnifying glasses

Process to Set Up the Camouflage Chameleon Sensory Bin:

Fill the base of the tray with rice and chickpeas.
Scoop the legumes around the tray to form a tree branch.
Using gems to form a chameleon. I used the book to help me try and create the shape.
Set up tools and additional bug & insect figurines.
Let your little ones have fun.

While I waited for the rice to dry, I made a chameleon on the counter. Because of the amount of legumes in the tray, it was difficult to form the same looking animal again. But it worked out in the end.

It was easier to start with the tale of the chameleon and then start adding more and more gems to form the body and head. Then the legs were last. When I first made this creature adding green gems around worked well. But when I made it again in the tray I used less green and more colored gems than I needed before.