OVERVIEW
Prep time: 15 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Estimated Cost: 50 AED
Mess level:
Age: 1 plus
What you need
Sand
Empty bottle (We used a plastic VOSS Water Bottle)
Small ocean animal toys
Water
Blue food coloring (optional)
Small shells (optional)
Ways to adapt:
Their are literally hundreds of different sensory bottles that can be made. You can look at a different sheet to get some inspiration.
Notes
Store in a cool room for long lasting use.
For babies you will obviously need to make but as children get older the actually making of the bottle is something they will really enjoy.
Instructions:
Fill bottle with approximately 2 inches of sand.
Fill bottle with water.
To prepare their aquarium add small shells and a drop of blue food coloring to the water.
Next have them select animals and put them inside their aquarium.
Close the bottle tight and the sensory bottle is ready to be played with. (You may want to seal the bottle shut by gluing the lid on.
We left our bottle lid unglued because we want to retrieve our ocean animals once we are done with our sensory bottles.
Benefits:
These DIY bottles can address a wide range of concepts and can be adapted to meet the needs of the children using them.
Math skills: counting, matching, shape recognition, spatial reasoning
Pre-reading skills: letters, sounds
Vocabulary skills: descriptive language, following directions
Fine motor skills
Science skills: Sink/float concepts, introduction to the scientific method – making an observation, asking a question, testing a hypothesis or prediction
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