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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Fantastic Friday :)

Yesterday, Grayson and I had a quiet day. We watched our movie, watched our educational videos, and had just a quiet day. We did go to the Dollar Tree and got a bunch of stuff for Grayson's sensory bottles (picture to follow). That was a ton of fun! I love the #6 Dollar Tree! It's so much bigger and has more of a variety of things especially toys and crafts. We got back home and while we waiting on TC to come home from work, I sorted through all of the stuff we got. I bought some colored heart beads and colored confetti. I sorted BOTH by color and let's just say that confetti was SO much fun to sort. Not! Lol! TC got home and I didn't feel like cooking and my dining room table was a mess with all of the stuff I bought, so we went to Ryan's as a treat with the coupons I had. Grayson picked out a green balloon and that's all he focused on. Well, that and his sensory bottle. We got a lot of compliments about the sensory bottle and of course every kid that saw it wanted one lol. One girl kept staring at it and wanted it so bad that she was trying to steal it lol. Grayson wasn't having all of that now!

Sorry for the short post, but here are the pictures of the sensory bottles. All you do is clean out a soda bottle (we bought the Sparkling Ice Carbonated Waters at the Dollar Tree). I HATE those things but Grayson likes them so we poured all 4 in a pitcher and watered it down and there it sits in the fridge for Grayson lol. Anyway, we bought those bottles since they're long and skinny. We split up the colored hearts and confetti into colors and set some of the colored hearts and confetti to the side to make a rainbow sensory bottle. You have use anything to go in the bottles. We used a funnel to dump the hearts and the confetti into the bottle and then filled it with water and wah-la! Lol! To keep the cap good and tight, you can hot glue the cap to the bottle to seal it. We also searched through our recycling and found a Pepsi bottle and made a "rain stick" bottle that's not pictured that has rice, angel hair pasta, tooth picks and salt in it. It makes a pretty cool sound although, again, it was just a test run so we'll have to put more rice, pasta, tooth picks and salt in it to really make a cooler sound.

 
Of course I had to get a picture of all the colors :)
 

 
And my OCD kicked in trying to match the colored hearts to the colored bowls lol Grayson was right next to me the whole time so I was teaching him colors at the same time lol

 
And this is where the sorting got hard lol that was A LOT of confetti to be in that itty bitty bag lol

 
Get a funnel and put it in the bottle like so and dump everything in the bottle (FYI dump the stuff in there BEFORE you add water)! If you don't, it'll cause a bigger mess. Glad I realized that BEFORE I did it lol

 
I only bought 4 bottles so we made a green, yellow, pink and rainbow one

 
I absolutely LOVE the rainbow one! It's just so pretty and mesmerizing!

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