How to Make Weather Sensory Bottles
Enjoy making 3 types of weather sensory bottles using simple craft supplies. Follow our step by step instructions to make sensory bottles representing a cloudy sky with gentle rain, a rainstorm, or a sunny summer sky.
Yield: 3 weather sensory bottles
Cost: $3
Equipment
- Cotton round (or cotton ball)
- Rubbing alcohol (or Goo Gone; for cleaning off label)
- Toothpick (for sunny sensory bottle only)
Materials
Cloudy with Rain Sensory Bottle:
- 1 Tablespoon Sequins (blue and silver)
- 10 White pom pom(s)
- Water
- 1 Tablespoon Glycerin
Sunny Sensory Bottle:
- 2 Cotton balls
- 1 Yellow pom pom
- Water
- 1 Tablespoon Glycerin
- Food colouring (blue)
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.
Cloudy with Rain Sensory Bottle:
- For this cloudy with rain showers sensory bottle you'll need sequins, pom poms, and glycerin.
- Pour the blue and silver sequins into the empty bottle. These are the rain drops!
- Add 10 white pom poms into the bottle. These are your puffy clouds.
- Pour water in until the bottle is mostly full.
- Add in the glycerin.
- Close the bottle and shake it, turning it back and forth, to mix in the glycerin.
- Your cloudy with rain sensory bottle is complete!
Rain Sensory Bottle:
- To make this rain storm sensory bottle you'll need baby oil and blue glitter.
- Fill the empty bottle with baby oil until it's mostly full.
- Pour in blue glitter.
- Close the bottle tightly and tilt it back and forth to disperse the glitter.
- Your rain sensory bottle is complete!
Sunny Sensory Bottle:
- To make a sunny sensory bottle you'll need a yellow pom pom, cotton balls, blue food colouring, and glycerin.
- Slightly pull apart 2 cotton balls to look like fluffy clouds.Pull them apart more if you want wispy looking clouds.
- Add the cotton balls and a yellow pom pom to the empty bottle.
- Pour in water until the bottle is mostly full.
- Add in the glycerin.
- Then add a very small amount of blue food colouring to the water - less than 1 drop. The clouds will be hidden if you add too much blue.We dipped a toothpick into the food colouring and stirred it in until we were happy with the colour.
- Close the lid tightly and tilt and shake to combine.
- Your sunny sensory bottle is complete!
Enjoy playing with your weather sensory bottles!
- Tilt your sensory bottles back and forth, watching the add-ins slowly fall.You can have fun with these DIY sensory bottles at home, or use them at school to learn about different types of weather!
Video
Notes
Looking for more sensory bottles? Here's a few of our favourites:
DIY Sensory Bottles
Jellyfish in a Bottle
Anti-Gravity Galaxy in a Bottle