Sensory Bottles

Sensory Bottles are inexpensive materials to make. Many of the materials can be purchased at the dollar store or a local craft store. 

These awesome water bottles were purchased at Tops supermarket.  They come in 20 oz sizes or a six pack of 16 oz bottles.

   

I Spy Bottles

 Packing Pellets from Hobby Lobby!


  We put some packing pellets then placed some numbers found at the dollar store and then finished filling the bottle to about 3/4 of the way so that the materials inside will have room to move. We are also going to make one using letters for our ABC area!

Sensory Bottles 

Hair gel from the dollar store.

Mixing hair gel and water creates an awesome suspension effect.  I actually put more hair gel than water in the first bottle I made.  It doesn't move around as much when you shake it but it looks cool to the kiddies! 

 

Snowflakes and sequin

Numbers and glitter

Snowflakes and animal buttons.  The  glitter actually turned the water pink.

We keep the tops secure by hot gluing them on. Works great for hours of fun.

                                                                   
                                                               
                   Squishy bags

We made squishy bags for the infants and toddlers.  This is simply a Ziploc bag filled with hair gel, foam letters and sequin.  We reinforced the top of the bag with packing taped.

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Decorative Trees

We made these around Christmas time and I'm just getting around to posting this activity. This a wonderful and delicious activity for children of all ages.

You will need: sugar cones,  white frosting, food coloring, Decorative sugar, and various candy of your choice.  We chose to use mini marshmallows, gummy bears, chocolate chips and red and green gumdrops.

 

We used food coloring to create frosting of various colors.

 

Now the fun begins!

Have the children cover the cone in their frosting of choice. Some of our friends said they had trees of  other 

colors besides green, so we used other colors as well!

  

A delicious edible art project!

                                           

Pudding Art

An alternative to finger-painting especially for infants is pudding art.  We used regular vanilla pudding. In the past we've used other colors/flavors together such as chocolate and vanilla.  Pudding is safe for the infants because they are free to taste it.   The kids loved to feel the squishy texture, mi and swirl the colors together, make letters and create pictures in the pudding.

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Our Light Table

So we made our light table today. We got the idea from recent posts on Pinterest and thought we'd try our own.  We took a clear plastic bin and spray painted the sides and bottom with silver metallic paint.

We actually only used one string of led lights.  I think we'll add another string to make it even brighter

The kids love this activity.  We went to the dollar store and got some decorative rocks that you would put in a vase.  We also added translucent shapes.

Colored Rice

Here's an easy sensory table we created for our 2 and 3 year old friends... colored rice. We used white rice, added a little rubbing alcohol.

Add drops of food coloring.  You can either mix it up in a bowl or put it in a Ziploc bag and shake. I recommend a Ziploc bag if you are creating this with the little ones. 

Instant rice sensory table.  Add measuring cups, shovels, farm animals or any items from your weekly theme.  

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