Dancing Bottles
Plastic liter pop bottles can hold lots of fun for your toddler. Try these ideas:
1.
Swirling objects bottle. Fill a plastic pop bottle half full with water. Add some food
coloring. Then add small, light plastic toys, plastic sequins, beads, some things that
float and some things that do not. Glue on the cap. Let her shake the bottle to make
the objects swirl around.
2.
Dancing yarn bottle. Put several pieces of yarn cut in short pieces (about 3 inches to
6 inches) into a plastic pop bottle. Fill the bottle with water. Glue on the cap. Let her
shake the bottle to make the yarn dance inside.
3.
Colored bubbles bottle. Fill a plastic pop bottle one third full with water. Add tempera
paint and about 1/3 cup of liquid detergent. Glue on the cap. Let the child shake the
bottle to make colored bubbles.
Squishy Bags
Take a small, resealable zip-lock bag. With your help, let your child press the button on a
shaving cream can to put some shaving cream inside of the bag. Fill only about half full.
Then let him pick out two different colors of food coloring and put a squirt of each in with the
shaving cream. Close the zip closure. Let him squeeze the bag to mix the colors.