After creating my Swirling Autumn Leaves Sensory Bottle, I wanted to make another bottle for autumn with pumpkins. It was surprisingly hard to find pumpkins that I liked that also fit in my bottle. I ended up purchasing some autumn confetti shapes. The package I bought contained pumpkins, acorns, maple leaves, and oak leaves in various colors.
I wanted this bottle to have a different feel than the Swirling Autumn Leaves one, so I used slightly different amounts of water and corn syrup to make the confetti fall more slowly. In this bottle, it takes over one minute for the pumpkins and leaves to settle on the bottom. If there are air bubbles that attach to any of the confetti, that piece will rise to the top, or even suspend in the middle, which is also a neat effect.
If you are interested in creating a Swirling Autumn Leaves Sensory Bottle, here is what I used:
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- 11 oz VOSS water bottle – Target
- 3 oz water
- Fall Confetti (I used 10 pumpkins and 24 leaves) – Amazon
- Fill the remainder of the bottle with corn syrup (about 8 oz) – Amazon
- super glue (for gluing the lid shut) – Amazon
Thank you for checking out my Pumpkins and Leaves Sensory Bottle!
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Reap in accordance with kindness;
Break up your fallow ground,
For it is time to seek the Lord
Until He comes to rain righteousness on you.”
Hosea 10:12
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goodevening, does the corn syrup stop the leaves from just falling, so they actually float? thankyou. Heidi
goodevening, does the corn syrup stop the leaves from just falling, so they actually float? thankyou. Heidi
Hi Heidi! The corn syrup slows their fall. The more you add, the slower they will go.
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