DIY Spring Sensory Bottles for Preschoolers

These DIY Spring Sensory Bottles are easy to make but allow for loads of sensory input.

Sensory bottles are a wonderful way for children to explore their world through their senses.

From sound to sight, these simple spring sensory bottles are a fun sensory experience for your kiddo.

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How to Play with Spring Sensory Bottle

This Spring Sensory Bottle made with uncooked rice and spring buttons provides a delightful and interactive experience for children. Here are some engaging ways for them to play:

Seek and Find: Add a variety of spring-themed buttons to the sensory bottle. Encourage the child to shake and turn the bottle to find specific buttons or identify different shapes and colors. This promotes visual discrimination and attention to detail.

Counting Challenge: Incorporate numbered buttons into the mix. Ask the child to count how many buttons they can find or shake out of the bottle. This activity enhances numerical recognition and counting skills.

Sorting by Color: Include buttons in different spring colors. Challenge the child to sort the buttons by color, either by shaking them into groups or by using the bottle as a container for a color-sorting activity.

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Create a Story: Use the buttons as characters in an imaginative story. Encourage the child to narrate a tale involving the spring buttons, describing their adventures or personalities. This activity stimulates creativity and storytelling skills.

Letter or Number Hunt: Attach letters or numbers to the buttons and ask the child to find specific ones within the bottle. This combines sensory play with early literacy or numeracy development.

Calming Focus: Use the sensory bottle as a calming tool. When the child needs a moment of relaxation, they can shake the bottle gently and watch the buttons float and settle. This can be a useful tool for self-regulation.

Fine Motor Challenge: Provide tweezers or small tongs and encourage the child to pick out specific buttons from the bottle. This fine motor activity promotes hand-eye coordination and precision.

Shake to the Beat: Put on some spring-themed music and invite the child to shake the sensory bottle to the rhythm. This activity combines sensory exploration with an appreciation for music and rhythm.

Nature Exploration: Discuss the concept of spring and nature. Ask the child to find buttons that represent flowers, raindrops, or animals associated with the season. This activity encourages thematic exploration and vocabulary development.

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Texture Exploration: Discuss the sensation of the rice within the sensory bottle. Encourage the child to feel the DIY Simple Sensory Bottles and describe the texture. This engages the sense of touch and promotes descriptive language.

Remember to adapt these activities based on the child’s age and developmental level. Sensory play is not only entertaining but also a valuable tool for learning and skill development.

Spring Sensory Bottle Materials

Materials you’ll need:

Empty Water Bottle (personally I like Voss bottled water because you can stand the bottle up on either end)
Uncooked Rice
Spring Buttons
Super Glue

Yes, that’s really all you need!

Some other fun things to add to this spring sensory bottle include bee buttons, spring holiday buttons and mini flower buttons.

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Spring Sensory Bottles Directions

Wash your water bottle. Remove the labels. (Goo Gone is awesome for getting rid of labels!)

Fill a small amount with rice. Add some of the spring buttons. Repeat until you get close to the top.

Be sure to leave some room in the bottle so the rice and beads can move above the bottle easily. Super glue top on. (Some people prefer to glue gun the bottle closed.)

Have fun!

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5 Comments

Stacey says:

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I love these but honestly didn’t really know what to use for the tubes. I know exactly where to buy the Voss water and I think I’ll pick up a few of those. I’ll just make sure those always get played with on the carpet.

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  Stacey — The Voss water comes in plastic, too! That’s what we use for the kids. I’d never give them glass to play with. Just look for them in the water aisle. I’m sure your grocery store has them.
  
Jennie @ The Diary of a Real Housewife says:

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Fun! Both of my boys would actually love this!

Michelle says:

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I have many sensory bottles I’ve made in my classroom. One favorite for the hyperactive child that needs a little bit more calming down is the VOSS bottle with clear shampoo and marbles in it. Something about watching the marbles really calms the spirit. We also use pipe cleaners cut up with a magnet on the side to move them up and down. Love your idea!

1. Jennifer Hughes says:
  
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  We LOVE sensory bottles, too… and have lots with glitter and different objects in them. You just can’t go wrong with a sensory bottle 😀

DIY Spring Sensory Bottles