Fun Sensory Bottles

Water Bottles of choice (I used Voss plastic water bottles that I got from HomeGoods $5.99 for 6)
Hot glue gun
Fun little items (I purchased all of mine from the dollar store)

From left to right:

1) Plastic beads
2) St.Patricks beaded necklace
3) Neon Aligator ties (also found at dollar store =)
4) I-Spy bottle has rice, pom poms, beads, buttons, googly eyes, little bell and foam hands and feet. No water.
5) Beaded Necklace
6) Fuzzy pom poms

Other Ides:
Plastic leaves/flowers
rocks
marbles...anything you can find

Put Items in bottle. Superglue the inside of bottle cap and quickly screw on the lid before the glue dries. This insures your child can't take off the lid and pull out what's inside. I loved the Voss bottles because 6 came in a package and it comes with a little carrier. My kiddos absolutely love to play with these!

Toddler Rain Stick

Need some ideas for what to do with those cardboard rolls from all your Christmas wrapping? Well don't throw them away because your toddler would love them! ;)











Cardboard roll
Modge Podge
scrap book paper
1/3 cup rice, uncooked
strips of card board (about an inch wide, you can cut these off of a cereal box, or any box. They don't need to be pretty because they wont be seen)

Pretty simple! If you are going to decorate your tube. Do that first. You can let your kiddo color it, you can put paper on it if you want. I put scrap book paper on mine and I modge podged it down. Then to sustain my little tornado on legs ;) I put laminating paper on the whole thing too.

Seal the bottom. MAKE SURE YOU SEAL IT WELL!! I cut out a 4 inch circle. Modge podged it to the end then I even put tape around the edge just to make sure. Dried rice CAN BE A CHOKING HAZARD if you have little ones.

Take your strips of card board and fold them up ACCORDION style, like a fan. stretch them out a tiny bit. These are going to go inside your tube and these are what the rice will be falling around on. so the more ripples in your strips, the more sound your kiddo will hear ;)

Put all your strips one by one inside the tube.

Put the rice in.

Seal the other end of the tube GOOD and let your toddler have some fun!!

Trash Bag Holder

1 onesie (found this one at the dollar store)
Non-Toxic Finger paint
1 Excited-to-get-messy Toddler

Cover your craft table with a protective liner. Pour some finger paints. Let your toddler go crazy!

Wait for the onesie to dry. Stuff with all those extra walmart bags you have laying around and pin up with a thumb tack! My little guy loves to see his master piece hanging up in our kitchen!

Homemade Postcards!

Heavy Duty Index Cards
Non-Toxic Finger Paints
Laminating Paper

On the side of the index card that has the LINES write the return address, the sending to address and stamp it. Write this out how you would a normal envelope.

On the blank side of the index card (opposite of side you wrote on) let your little one either color or paint and maybe write a cute little note.

If you paint it, wait for it to try and cover only the picture side with laminating paper.

Pop in the mail and send to your favorite Aunt and Uncle or to Grandpa and Grandma! Our Post lady even came to my door and commented on how awesome she thought these were.

Sensory World

This is such a fun online interactive website for kids to work on Sensory. I was even intrigued! =P

Sensory World Website