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December 4, 2014 | 12 Comments

Magnetic Sensory Bottles – Christmas Activities For Preschool

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My daughter helped me make these magnetic sensory bottles for my 2 & 3-year-old preschool class. I took them in today and the kids had fun exploring with them. I sat with small groups and demonstrated then we investigated the bottles letting them each make the magnets move and grove. The coolest discovery was that we could make the bells jingle without shaking the bottle, just by moving the magnetic wand. That made my day. Little discoveries like these are huge for young kids and also shows me their little minds are engaged.

Make Holiday Magnetic Sensory Bottles

Gather your materials. You will need some empty water bottles with lids, filler like pom poms, beads, colored beans, foil wrapping paper cut into small squares, etc… You will also need some filler that is magnetic like pipe cleaners, jingle bells, and magnetic disks, hot glue gun, washi tape, and of course a magnetic wand. how to make sensory bottles

Start by filling your bottles with the regular filler. I had some help! holiday sensory bottles for preschool

If you are using pipe cleaners in your bottles cut them into small pieces. A tip for doing this without bits flying everywhere is to bend the pipe cleaners around the scissors and then hold both ends. sensory bottles for preschool with magnets

Add the magnetic filler. magnetic sensory bottles for toddlers

Glue the tops on. I add just a little hot glue on the inside of the caps then screw them on. Then I add a little more on the outside. christmas sensory bottles with magnets

Wrap a few layers of tape on top to make it pretty, as well as add a little extra protection from the bottles being opened. Please remember that even with the glue kids can find ways into things we never expect them to get into. These, like all our activities, require close adult supervision.

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Time to test them out while having some fun.

christmas science for kids

She loved making the pipe cleaners dance through the foil wrap. Her favorite discovery was that she could lift one of the magnetic sensory bottles up with just the magnetic wand!

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Filed Under: Age Preschool, Age: Toddlers, Christmas, Preschool Activities, Science, Sensory Activities, Sensory Bottles | 12 Comments

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12 Comments

  1. mary porter says

    December 5, 2014 at 10:41 am

    Cute! Where do you get the magnetic bars??

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    • Allison McDonald says

      December 5, 2014 at 9:32 pm

      I got this one at Lakeshore Learning but you can buy one here ( affiliate link) SEOH Magnetic Wand Magnetism Individual 8 Inches

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  2. Olive says

    January 22, 2015 at 6:53 am

    What a great idea!

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  3. Mary J Welch says

    December 9, 2018 at 7:59 am

    I love all the activities posted. I’ve tried some of them with toddlers and they were fascinated by the discovery bottles especially the jingle bells.

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