In order to create a sense of ownership, I was keen to involve the children in making the bottles (another idea suggested within the group!) As my children are all currently under 2, I decided to opt for 1.5 litre bottles. We also used diluted food colouring and an assortment of resources such as sequins, glitter, glitter stands etc to fill the bottles. I hadn’t been particularly organised with this activity and had to settle for what I could find in the garage.
I got my son to ‘test out’ creating the bottle babies first, before letting the little ones loose on the activity! We used the hose pipe to fill the bottles, added diluted food colouring.
Added glitter.
And gave the bottles a good shake.Success!
But with perseverance they managed it!
Next they added food colouring, listening to and following the instruction to ‘just add a little bit at a time’.
Next they selected what they would like to add to their bottle, sequin stars were chosen to add to this one.
It proved to be a very popular activity and the children had to wait patiently for their turn with the hose pipe. It was so popular that the 6 bottles I had put aside weren’t enough and I had to search for more!
Yellow this time!
Glitter proved to be very popular and looked fantastic in the bottles.
Giving it a good shake!
Bottle baby production fully underway. The only one we didn’t like was the black one. Lucky my son made this one and was happy to empty it out and have another go!
We did eventually run out of bottles, but I think the children would have been happy to carry on making them for much longer!
Our finished bottle babies, all ready for play next week!
