Discovery Bottles

Discovery Bottles: An oldie (idea) but a goodie

Exploration and Sensory Play for Babies

 

These are some of the simple discover bottles we made for our babies when they were sitting up and wanting to explore everything.  Discover bottles are SO easy to make and babies love exploring them.  
All you need are old bottles and materials to put inside.  

*If you worry of the lids coming off you can glue the lids once you have filled them with a hot glue gun  or use tape.  

We brought the bottles out for 'special times' so they were not out constantly.  When we did bring them out and when we  out we explored alongside our babies so they were not unsupervised.

The types of bottles we made were:

1. Felt pom poms of different sizes

2. Kidney beans

3. Feathers

4. Water, baby oil and food colouring

5. Food colouring, water and glitter

6. Water and petals

Other ideas:

1.  Pieces of tinfoil

2. Buttons

3. Rice (white or coloured)

3. Sand and glitter

4. Water and beads

5. Shave crayons and add to water

6. Tiny animals and hair gel (will be making these)

Do you have any other ideas that you have seen or used?

Posting Posting and more Posting

We both noticed at around 9/10 months old that all 3 babies were BIG into Posting.  They tried to post everything into big boxes.

As a result we decided to set up a POSTING daily discovery.  

Sam was creative and used strips of old fabric she had around the house and decorated a box with wrapping paper. I don't know how she found time with twins!  I think it looks really inviting for children and her twins loved it.

I on the other hand bought my posting box from ELC.  Baby E loves this. My only complaint is that the door does snap shut, however, we haven't had any accidents with it.  There is also a larger hole on the back which is good for differentiation.  Initially E was not able to get it through the small slit at the front so she used the big hole at the back OR opened the door. This has since changed.

For older children this Pop It In The Post game also looks good.

Shiny Happy Babies

Shiny and Bright

Baby E spent over 20 minutes exploring this daily discovery.

She was using all of her senses: staring, touching, turning, tasting and BANGING!

Test

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