This sensory bottle was inspired by my six-year-old!
It’s no secret that I like sensory bottles. They are fun to create. They are challenging to experiment with. They are interesting to watch. My husband thinks I’m a bit crazy because I have a shelf full of old water bottles that have weird things inside. But I like them, and it’s not always just me! My older son often joins in on the fun. He and I are alike in that we have very specific visions for our sensory bottles. When we make them together, I always let him have his own bottle, and I get my own, and we each get to choose what goes into our own bottle.
On this particular occasion, I was working on my glowing Halloween bottles, so I had all of the Halloween confetti out on the table. While I was interested in the pumpkins, bats, and stars, he wanted the spiders and spider webs. I helped my son with his liquid ingredients and turned him loose with the confetti while I worked on my bottles. He showed me his bottle when he was done and I loved it! The spiders and webs looked creepy-cool and I wanted to make one, too!
I decided that since I was going to make another Halloween bottle, I might as well come up with a third method for creating a glow-in-the-dark sensory bottle. My first attempt at using glow-in-the-dark glue did not go well. The glue ended up being super clumpy and gloppy. But, after finally figuring out my Jack-O-Lantern Glow-in-the-Dark sensory bottle, I had an idea of where I went wrong with the glue and how to get it to work.
I started with about 2.5 ounces of the glow-in-the-dark glue, added ¼ cup of hot water, and shook it up until the mixture had a uniform consistency. Then I added another ¼ cup of hot water, shook it up again, then added the confetti and the last of the water. This time it worked! The liquid was not clumpy or gloppy.
The only problem was that the bottle was pretty opaque and it was a bit hard to see the confetti. I knew that if I tried again and used less glue (hoping for more transparent liquid), the fall rate of the confetti would be too fast for my liking, so… I added a TON more confetti. I have never used this much confetti in a sensory bottle before, but I thought, what would I do with all of this spider and spider web confetti anyway? I didn’t have any other plans for it.
Adding the extra confetti helped a lot. I could see a lot of black spider webs and creepy red spiders in the bottle and the opacity kind of worked out well, creating a sense of thick, deep spider webs.
If you are interested in creating a Creepy Spider Glow-in-the-Dark Sensory Bottle, here is what I used:
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- 11 oz VOSS water bottle – Target
- 2.5 oz Elmer’s Glow-in-the-Dark Glue – Amazon
- Hot water
- 40 pieces spider web confetti – Amazon
- 5 tsp red spider confetti – Amazon
- Super glue (for gluing the lid shut) – Amazon
Thank you for checking out my Creepy Spiders Glow-in-the-Dark Sensory Bottle!
“God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”
Genesis 1:25
~Sarah ~
Have u ever used different confetti? Like to make a different theme? Wd it change the way it falls do you think?
One of the things I like so much about these is how customizable they are. It is so fun to experiment with different confetti, glitter, and liquids. They are each unique and that’s part of the fun.