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Katerina Bothou-2nd Kindergarten of Efxinoupolis- Greece

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Sabina Rahimova Azerbaijan Baku Cahan kindergarten

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I think it's safe to say that I'm a slight sensory bottle addict. Since we've made so many around here, I wanted to share my best tips and tricks about how to make a sensory bottle - the sensory bottle you've been wishing for and dreaming of.

A perfect sensory bottle is what you want it to be, but sometimes that takes lots of trial and error. We've had lids break, mold grow, magnets turn to rust, complete flops, and so many more unexpected results. They've always been an adventure though, and my approach has become much more scientific throughout the years.

How to Make a Sensory Bottle

Hopefully, this will help guide you to choose the perfect materials and ingredients to make the sensory bottle you really want! They are wonderful tools to use at home or in the car, and in the classroom. Plus, they are a great addition to a preschool curriculum.

How to choose the right sensory bottle

The bottle is like your lens. The shape and clarity are important as well as the size and sturdiness.

Through time I've learned that smaller bottles are best for heavy sensory bottles and a bottle that works well for big kids isn't always what is best for babies and toddlers.

Here are my favorite kinds (and of course there are others):

VOSS water bottles are beautiful and sleek! The silver lid just gives it the perfect finishing touch. My rainbow discovery bottle is made from a VOSS water bottle. Oh and the water is super yummy too!
VOSS Water Bottle for a Sensory Bottle
Pros:

Nice smooth edge

Flat bottom

Big opening for objects

3 sizes to choose from

Cons:

Lids can break when dropped

Not widely available

Not as sturdy as other bottles

I have found VOSS bottles at these locations: Kroger or King Soopers, Wal-Mart (online and in store), Whole Foods, TJ Maxx, a few convenience stores, boxed.com, Target, and of course online at Amazon

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They come either as glass or plastic. I've always bought plastic because once I add a liquid ingredient, a bottle starts to get heavy. The plastic bottles are going to be lighter for children to pick up. Glass works well for some people though.

This Voss Water, 11.2 oz.

is the smalles size and perfect for all ages. I highly recommended it for any sensory bottles that use liquid.

Sparkling ICE bottles are nice and smooth and a great option for a sensory bottle. My alphabet discovery bottle is made from one.
Sparkling ICE Bottle
Pros:

Can be found at many grocery stores

Sleek edges

Sturdy

Cons:

Narrow Opening

The bottom is not flat

Only one size

Craft bottles come in many shapes and sizes and are a fun option for a sensory bottle.
Craft Bottles as a Sensory Bottle
Pros:

Perfect for young children

Easy to hold shape

Flat base

Several Shapes

Different sizes

Cons:

Craft bottles can be found at craft stores. I've seen them near the colored sand, and they are about $1 per bottle. If you are looking for them online, look for sand art bottle s.

An Aquaball water bottle is a perfect alternative to a craft bottle if you are having trouble finding one. It can be easily spotted with it's blue lid, and it is ball-shaped.
Aquaball bottles for Sensory Bottles
Pros:

Perfect for young children

Easy to hold shape

Flat base

Available in many grocery stores

Cons:

I found my Aquaball at my local grocery store.

Recycled containers also make wonderful sensory bottles! Sugar Aunts has many wonderful recycled sensory bottles. Here is her math dominoes one.
Recycled containers as a Sensory Bottle
These are some sensory bottles made by my friend Cathy, and she used plastic spice containers that we found at the thrift store.

Pros:

Recycled containers are very affordable, if not free

Most recycled containers have a wide opening for objects to go through.

You are adding new life to something old.

Cons:

Each container is different, so it's hard to say.

Other containers that are perfect for this are ones that once contained food. Peanut butter jars or similar work really well.

Making a Sensory Bottle

Use a clean bottle when making your discovery bottle...otherwise, you may acquire some unwanted growth later on. I pour the water into a different cup, then rinse it out if it is a flavored water.

To remove the label and the sticky residue, you can use Goo Gone or even peanut butter. I've had my Goo Gone for at least five years, so a little goes a long way!

To color your bottle, I highly recommend liquid watercolor. You could use food coloring as well.

I love using liquid ingredients! These are all of the ones that I have used and what they are perfect for. Keep in mind that anything metallic or magnetic will rust if you don't put it in the proper liquid.

Water - Almost anything! Just don't add magnets or anything metallic to this one or else it will rust.
Liquid Ingredients
Colored Water - Just add some liquid watercolor or food coloring.

- This will slightly slow down whatever you have in your bottle. Items such as glitter will slow down a bit more. Mineral oil is also my "go to" solution for magnets and metallic items. Here's my magnetic discovery bottle in mineral oil.
Mineral Oil
Baby Oil - This is mostly scented mineral oil. It is available at the dollar store usually. I want to try the oil gel soon!

- You'll want to use this to color oil. Food coloring and liquid watercolor will not work since they are water-based. My color mixing sensory bottles are made of this!

Cooking Oil - I love combining this with colored water!

Liquid Soap - A nice slowing component. I use SoftSoap. Here is a calm down jar with liquid soap.

Shampoo - This also slows the flow of objects.

- Glycerine will slow down things such as glitter slightly. Here is a calm down jar I made out of glycerin.

Corn Syrup - Corn syrup will slow objects down quite a bit. Make sure your objects are super clean! My alphabet discovery bottle is made of corn syrup.

- This is a great calm down jar ingredient and also great for slow-falling objects
Elmer's Clear Glue
- A little goes a long way! I advise that you only use this if you are very experienced with making sensory bottles because it can be a tricky glue to work with. Here's a calm down jar with glitter glue.

Glitter Glue - Mix this with hot water for a beautiful bottle. I use the kind from the Dollar Store.
Elmer's Glitter Glue
Hair Gel - I used hair gel for my Rainbow Bottle, Two Ingredient Magic Discovery Bottle, and Suspended Ocean Creature Bottle. It helps dry objects "stay put."

and Water - One of my absolute favorite sensory bottles is made of water beads! These Rainbow Discovery Bottle s from Play to Learn Preschool are AMAZING. If you only make one set this year, make these!

Tonic Water - Make something glow in the dark! Here's one from Fun at Home with Kids, and she tells you the exact one to make it look clear in light.
Water Beads
Dish Soap - Use a squirt of this if you have glitter that won't sink.

Magnets - See my Magnetic Discovery Bottles.

Fine Glitter - I use this for all my Calm Down Jars.

Feathers
Dry Ingredients
- These were a big component to my Musical Discovery Bottle.

Confetti - My two favorites are this Frozen-Inspired Snowstorm Sensory Bottle by Rhythms of Play and this Heart Glitter Jar from Fun-a-Day.
Poly-Pellets Weighted Stuffing Beads
Acrylics - See the acrylics in my Fall Discovery Bottle

Sand

Alphabet Beads - There are so many types to choose from! Here's my Rainbow Alphabet Discovery Bottle.

- These are awesome, especially in some hair gel. Plus there are so many varieties of animals to choose from. I used them for my Ocean Creature Discovery Bottle.

Googly Eyes - Here are some in hair gel!
TOOB Animal Sets
Loom Bands - Teach Preschool did an awesome job with her Loom Band Discovery Bottle

Nature - I love these ideas from Lemon Lime Adventures.

Mini Erasers - The dollar spot at Target is a gold mine for these.

Legos - You may have seen this awesome Lego Calm Down Jar.

Perler Beads - I love how Teaching Mama used them in her Slow-Falling Beads Sensory Bottle.

Pony Beads - Fun at Home with Kids has an amazing pony bead discovery bottle.

Pipe Cleaners or Chenille stems - These are magnetic so you can put a magnet on the side of the bottle to attract them.

Beads - Nearly any bead looks great! Check out this idea from Stay at Home Educator.

Marbles - This Inside Out Emotions Discovery bottle from Lalymom uses marbles in a brilliant way!

Buttons

Pom poms

Holiday accents

Sequins

Shredded paper - Here is ours that we made into a candy corn pattern.

Scented items - I love scented sensory bottles. Check out these ones from Things to Share and Remember.

Small toys

Pasta

Rice

Beans

Split Peas - Here's a great example from Sugar Aunts.
Dried Foods
Dry Candy - I love this conversation heart bottle from Sunny Day Family and this fall pumpkin one from Modern Preschool.

Once you've combined all of the ingredients together to make a perfect sensory bottle, it's time to use the glue! I use a glue gun

or Gorilla Super Glue
Glue it Together
. Keep in mind that you will need to glue your bottle every few months as the glue will wear off.

Sensory bottles can last years, so I never feel bad about indulging with them! I'd love to hear what your favorite sensory or discovery bottle is!
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14 September Kindergarten- Mustafakemalpaşa- Bursa- Ezel Tuna  Our children vote. They chose the experiment they enjoyed most.

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They were surprised while watching the experiments. They were hesitant to choose. finally they were able to decide which one they wanted to do :)

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The children were excited about all the experiments about the colors. They didn't know which one to choose.However they voted for one but asked to do someothers that caught their interest.

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We mixed foam and colors and created multi color clouds! We loved it and voted it as our second favourite experiment. Question: Where the "clouds" gathered the color or it fell down to the water and colored it?

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Making a rainbow of smarties - Kerasia Tembeli, 2nd Kindergarten of New Agchialos

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Thank you all partners for your wonderful ideas!!!! We are proposing  a sweet, colorful rainbow of....smarties!!! We use
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Ellinoagliki Agogi-Marilena Papatheodorou

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Pipets
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Cups
Water pads

We can make later an art galery from the results of mixing colours.
( ideas from :”dzieciakiwdomu.PL)

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Bowls
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1) What color will be produced if we mix red and yellow? a) b) c) 2) What color will be produced if we mix blue and yellow? a) b) c) 3) What color will be produced if we mix red and blue? a) b) c) 4) What color will be produced if we mix red and white? a) b) c)

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1) What color will be produced if we mix red and yellow? a) b) c) 2) What color will be produced if we mix blue and yellow? a) b) c) 3) What color will be produced if we mix red and blue? a) b) c) 4) What color will be produced if we mix red and white?

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Katerina Bothou-2nd Kindergarten Of Efxinoupolis

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Katerina Maggarda -Kindergarden of Sourpi

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1) Choose the yellow 2) Choose the blue 3) Choose the blue 4) Choose the red 5) choose the yellow 6) choose the blue 7) choose the red 8) choose the green

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Katerina Maggarda -Kindergarden of Sourpi

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Katerina Maggarda

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Sofia Papaioannou and Noula Gioti

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Materials:

-hot water

- 3 glass containers

6 colored tongue twisters (2 blue, 2 red and 2 yellow)
Execution: We place the hot water in all 3 containers. Then we put a yellow and a red tongue strainer in the 1st container and mix. A red and a blue tongue strainer in the 2nd container and mix. In the 3rd container we put yellow and blue tongue twister. Children notice that the water takes on color. Orange happens in the 1st, purple in the 2nd and green in the 3rd

Sofia and Noula/ Kindergarten of Amisiana, Greece

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It is always played between 2 players.

Each player chooses a color ( red or green).

At each turn each player places one of his pieces.

The player who manages to place 3 pieces in a row in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line wins the game.

Once all the available spaces are filled, if nobody manages to place 3 pieces in a row, the game ends in a draw.

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Material needed:

1. salad spinner

2. different paint colours

3. round paper to fit on the bottom of the salad spinner

Place the paper on the bottom of the salad spinner. Add different paint colours on it. Close the lid and... SPIN. Admire the way the colours mixed. Talk about centrifugal forces. Train gross motor skills!!
Compare with the masterpieces of your counterparts in other countries.

Sabrina Nannini, Italy

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COLOURED PASTA THREADING Sabrina Nanniny Italy

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COLOURED PASTA THREADING Sabrina Nanniny Italy

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COLOURED PASTA THREADING
To develop our children's fine motor skills + ability to sort + counting!

Material needed:

1. Coloured pasta (three different colours) in a basket

2. Play dough for the base

3. plastic straws to insert in the base

4. A timer

Children can work in teams. The teacher decides which colour they have to go for. When the given time is up, we will count which team found the biggest amount of items.

Italy = Pasta!!!
Sabrina Nannini, Italy

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This activity involves threading pasta onto straws that have been stuck into play dough. This is quite a detailed task for the little ones, therefore it can be quite challenging to begin with. But with lots of practise and patience, and tongue possible sticking out because they are concentrating so hard, they will master the threading.

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Material needed:

1. Cups of water + liquid water colour

2. Brushes

3. White Pastel

4. Thick paper

Instructions:
Draw some pictures on a thick paper with a white pastel (lines have to be very thick).
Have children "paint" the paper to undiscover the hidden images.
Sabrina Nannini - Italy

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With Sam not feeling well earlier today, we decided to spend our afternoon close to home and out of the sun. I love setting little play invitations out for the kids to discover after school, but since I hadn't gotten a chance to set something up during nap time, I quickly pulled together a classic while Grae and Sam devoured their afternoon snacks... Magic mystery painting! {An absolute childhood classic if you're old like me - hah!}

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Now I have to preface this all with the fact that I wasn't planning on sharing any of this here, so didn't pull out my big camera like I should have... hence the cell phone photos. Not ideal, but meh.

Here's what you'll need:

* Other thick, absorbent papers will work too, but watercolour paper can soak up a ton of paint without sogging up and ripping and it dries flat.

** Any type will do, but we love our Sax liquid watercolours and I think they're PERFECT for this project... They make it super easy for little ones to get a brush full of paint (just dip and go) and they're super washable. We used just a few drops of liquid watercolours diluted in small cups of water.

Okay, so here's how easy this is... First, use the white pastel to draw simple pictures, lines, and designs all over your watercolour paper. Two things to keep in mind... 1) Solid, thick pastel lines make for the best end result, so be sure to use lots of pressure when drawing and 2) your kiddos don't care what your drawings look like whatsoever, so don't let the fact that "you can't draw" stop you from doing this... Just really go for it!

Here's how I set it out for Grae and Sam... My white pastel drawings on a giant page of watercolour paper, plus little jars of Sax liquid watercolours diluted in water right on top. Oh, and paintbrushes too, of course!

I had already told Grae and Sam that this activity involved something magical / mysterious, so they wasted no time getting to painting once I told them it was ready to go.

And they were totally wowed. (Even though Miss G's done this loads of times... The resist part is fun, but it's uncovering the hidden drawings that makes this activity so fun and engaging.)

Part way through they decided that they'd try to paint the entire surface so as not to miss a single drawing or design, which I thought was very clever!

When they were mostly done, I encouraged them to go in and add more paint - a) because the paper can handle it and b) because it allowed them to explore colour mixing.

Isn't their piece beautiful?! Plus, when you have kiddos with a 5-year age gap, the very best thing is finding activities they both enjoy and can do alongside one another.

When they were done with the first one, Miss G asked if she could create a second one full of things Sam loves... And I mean, how can you say no to that, right? So while she worked on her version, Sam whipped her up a snack of toast, carrot, ice cream, and pancake.

Then it was back to work!

Here's the one G made... Isn't it the sweetest? Complete with all of the things Sam loves - fire engines, food, and Blippi, plus his name and his age.

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