Homemade Sensory Bottles

While blog hopping one day at this lovely blog and found these awesome sensory bottles! What a fun and inexpensive way for baby and toddler to explore the senses??  I was thinking of heading up to my $1 store and checking out some different things to put in my bottles, but after thinking about it...I was able to come up with everything I needed to make them for FREE!  

All I needed was a little imagination!

 So here is my take (and tut) on these wonderful and educational sensory toys! 

What you need: 

a few empty plastic bottles ( go with different sizes and shapes too...not just water bottles, etc.)

water

oil (vegi or baby oil works best)

food coloring

glue gun

stuff to put in the bottles...let me explain...

This is where your imagination can really go wild...I put tin foil, yarn, scrap felt and fabric, plastic beads, pasta, rice, packing paper, styrofoam...anything you want!

Start a collection of bottles

 Remove the labels.  Wash them out and let dry.

 Make sure your glue gun is warmed up and have your food coloring ready!

Then, get busy designing your sensory bottles and fill them up.  When you're ready to seal them, put a bead of hot glue around the inside of the screw on lid and quickly screw it on.

Let dry and all done! 

 Get creative and make as many as you can...the kiddo's love 'em!

 So...we made a blue water and oil bottle with pieces of tin foil, a orange water and oil bottle with red plastic beads, a pasta bottle (has all kinds of pasta, rice and oatmeal in it), a hodge podge of stuff in a green plastic bottle (has foil, green beads, green felt, packing paper, and green yarn in it), and a green soapy water and oil bottle!

 Tons of fun...all for free!  And we plan to make more!  Jack and I wanna make a nature bottle (full of twigs, dried leaves, dirt, and rocks) and a glitter bottle!

Ginger

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