Sensory Bottles

I've made quite a few sensory bottles for M, and she seems to enjoy them. I'll add the others in a future post. The ones I made yesterday are my favorite because they're so bright! and cheery! and M can learn colors from them.

We made colored noodles! They are so so so simple to make and I got the idea from from this sweet lady. I did change a few small details.

Items needed:
•Quart size bags. I double bagged my ziplocs
•water bottles
•gloves. Hindsight is 20/20, and 24 hours later I still have dye on my hands
•food coloring. I have liquid and gel but used liquid only
•noodles. I tried egg noodles for one color and they did not hold the color
•rubbing alcohol







Directions
•squeeze about 6 drops of food coloring into the double lined ziploc bag
•add a quarter cup of rubbing alcohol. do
notskimp on this part. I found the more I filled the 1/4 cup, the better the color came out
•add noodles into the bag. I took a few small handfuls.
•shake shake shake the bag to make sure all noodles get colored. flip the bag over every 20-30 minutes. I let the noodles sit in the coloring for about 3.5 hours
•when done, drain bag and let noodles air dry on a cookie sheet or paper towel or whatever you want






I decided to put the noodles in water bottles because although M is really good about not putting non-food items in her mouth, I don't need something I "may" have to worry about added into the mix!




And the final product:



We had some extra colored noodles so we made a rainbow bottle.