One of my favorite icons about the Christmas holiday are the Christmas trees. I love the smell of a real Christmas tree and I love decorating it.
This is why this year I decided to create a Christmas tree sensory bottle. I’m keeping it simple using clear glue, Christmas tree confetti, water, and a little bit of green glitter.
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Christmas Tree Sensory Bottle
Ingredients
- 1 sensory bottle or VOSS bottle
- 1 cup Clear Elmer’s Glue
- Green Christmas tree confetti
- Silver Christmas themed confetti (optional)
- 1 Tbsp Light green fine grain glitter
- Super-Glue (optional)
Instructions
- Empty about 1/3 of the VoSS water bottle out
- Empty the rest in a cup and heat it up for about 1minute in the microwave
- Place the warm water back into the bottle
- Add about 2 Tablespoons of green and silver confetti
- Add about 1 Tablespoon of green confetti
- Close the bottle and shake well. Ensure you have enough confetti and glitter. If you have too much glitter and you can’t see the confetti you can dump out some water with glitter from the bottle and add fresh water.
- When you get the desired quantity, fill the remaining space on the bottle with clear glue. Do not fill out all the way, leave breathing room for the bottle filling to move.
- Close the bottle and shake well
- If all looks good, use super glue to seal the bottle. This is only needed of you are afraid your child will open the bottle and spill its contents.
Step 1 – Gather The Supplies
To create this Christmas tree sensory bottle you will need:
- 1 sensory bottle (we used a plastic small VOSS bottle)
- 1 cup Clear Elmer’s Glue
- Green Christmas tree confetti
- Silver Christmas themed confetti (optional)
- 1 Tbsp Light green fine grain glitter
- Super-Glue (optional)
step 2 – Add confetti
I start by leaving only 3/4 of the water into the bottle and add the theme confetti.
The Christmas confetti that I got had a mix of red, silver, gold, and green. This bottle, I wanted to keep it in the shade of green so I separated the green and silver out the bag and added those to the bottle.
Step 3 – add glitter
I added about 2 tsp of light green glitter into the bag. I wanted light green to keep the bottle in the green family but have a little bit of contrast against the dark green from the trees.
Step 4 – check quantities
At this point, I close the bottle, shake it around and ensure I have enough (or not too much) confetti in the bottle. If I like it, then I can go ahead and add the glue.
Step 5 – Add clear glue
I love to use clear glue to slow the movement of the glitter and confetti. The confetti is a lot heavier than the glitter so it will fall down a little faster than the glitter. I added about 1 cup of glue.
Step 6 – seal and Play
I close the bottle, shake the bottle and evaluate how things are falling. If I like it, I go ahead and super-glue the top.
If your glitter and confetti is falling too slow, you can empty a little bit of the bottle and add some water.
If the confetti is to fast, then do the opposite. Add more water.
NOTE: Leave some room at the mouth of the bottle in the top to allow some air, for the contents of the bottle inside.
The perfect Sensory Bottle
The perfect Christmas sensory bottle or calm down bottle is the one that you create with the amount of confetti you like and the speed into which. Don’t be afraid to experiment and if you run into issues, send me a message over on Instagram @kidactivitieswithalexa and we can figure it out together.
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