How to Make Ocean Sensory Bottles
Make an ocean sensory bottle and create your own underwater paradise. Have fun shaking and tilting the bottle to explore the beauty and mysterious wonders of the deep.
Yield: 3 ocean sensory bottles
Cost: $5
Equipment
- Cotton round (or cotton ball)
- Rubbing alcohol (or Goo Gone, for cleaning off label)
- Wooden skewer (for stirring)
Materials
- VOSS Water bottle (empty)
Ocean Sensory Bottle #1
Ocean Sensory Bottle #2
Ocean Sensory Bottle #3
Instructions
Prepare your water bottle:
- Rinse or wash out an empty water bottle to make sure it's clean. Remove the label.
- Clean the outside of the bottle to remove any glue residue. You can wipe this with rubbing alcohol, Goo Gone, or simply soak the bottle in warm, soapy water.
Ocean Sensory Bottle #1:
- For this ocean sensory bottle you'll need baby oil, decorative rocks and stones, seashells, and glitter.
- Fill the bottle about 3/4 full with baby oil.
- Add about 1/4 cup of decorative rocks to the bottle. We put in about 20 rocks in a nice pink colour.
- Pour in about 1/3 cup of polished agate stones in different colours. We added 30 to 40 of them.
- Then add the mini seashells. We added about 1/2 cup of shells into the bottle, made up of all different types.
- Add in about 1/2 teaspoon of star shaped glitter or confetti. We added some in both blue and silver.
- Finally, top up the bottle with baby oil so that the liquid reaches the top.
- Close the bottle tightly and turn it back and forth to combine the contents.
- Your seashells and rocks ocean sensory bottle is complete!If you shake the bottle the star shaped glitter will swirl like it's in a whirlpool. But we also really like slowly turning this discovery bottle and examining all the different shells and rocks.
Ocean Sensory Bottle #2:
- For this second ocean sensory bottle you'll need baby oil, sand, shells, and blue oil based food colouring.
- Fill the empty water bottle about 3/4 full with baby oil.
- Add 1 drop of blue oil based food colouring into the bottle.
- Use a wooden skewer to stir the food colouring into the oil. The water should be light blue.
- Pour about 1/3 cup of decorative sand into the bottle.
- Then add about 1/2 cup of seashells into the bottle.
- Finally, fill the bottle to the top with baby oil.
- Close the lid of the bottle tightly and turn it upside-down to combine the add-ins.
- Your shell and sand ocean sensory bottle is complete!The seashells are hidden in the sand, but they reveal themselves when you shake or tilt the sensory bottle. How many different types of shells can you find?
Ocean Sensory Bottle #3:
- For this ocean sensory bottle you'll need water, baby oil, starfish beads, blue food colouring, and sand.
- Fill a bottle half way with water.
- Add about 6 drops of blue food colouring into the water.
- Use a skewer to stir the food colouring into the water. It should be a deep blue.
- Pour in about 1/3 cup of sand.
- Add in about 10 starfish beads, or other little sea creature toys of your choice.
- Then fill the rest of the bottle with baby oil.
- Close the lid tightly, and tilt back and forth to combine the contents.
- Your ocean depths sensory bottle is complete!Finding the hidden starfish in this bottle is great for an "I spy" game, and the blue "waves" moving around as you tilt the bottle back and forth are so beautiful! Plus, shake the bottle to create fun blue bubbles!
Video
Notes
Looking for more DIY sensory bottles? Here's a few of our favourites:
Jellyfish in a Bottle
Oil and Water Sensory Bottles
Anti-Gravity Galaxy in a Bottle