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November 12, 2022
Earth Day Sensory Bottles for Kids

Earth Day Sensory Bottles for Kids

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Looking for a fun way for kids to learn and explore this earth day? These earth day sensory bottles are a fun, hands0on earth day activity for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten too! Use this for your earth day theme on April 22nd.

Looking for a fun way for kids to learn and explore this earth day? These earth day sensory bottles are a fun, hands0on earth day activity for kids of all ages from toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten too! Use this for your earth day theme on April 22nd.

Earth Day Activities for Kids

Earth Day is coming and with it are great opportunities to explore the natural side of our world as well as talk about the purpose of Earth Day. Add some earth day sensory bottles to your science center to encourage young learners to explore.
Sensory bottles can be created with a variety of materials and lend to a multitude of learning activities. They can be used to help children calm down, to explore new materials, or to aid in the examination of small or fragile items.  Sensory bottles can be open-ended, allowing children to use them as they choose. Or, like this collection, they can contain learning cues for children to follow while exploring them.

Earth day sensory bottles

Materials Needed
  • Clean, clear
  • plastic bottles
  • Glue
  • Printer
  • Laminator
  • String
  • Bottle
  • contents (as detailed in bottle descriptions below)

Earth day activity

  • Clean out clear plastic bottles and caps. Let air dry.
  • Gather materials to place in bottles. (See each bottle’s contents below.)
  • Once bottles are filled, glue the lids in place with waterproof glue to prevent spillage and choking hazards.
  • Print and laminate bottle cue cards. Attach to corresponding bottles.
  • Insert earth-day-sensory-bottle-labels image
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Antarctica/Arctic Sensory Bottle

Fill the bottle with plain instant potato flakes to simulate snow. You may opt to add small snowflake confetti. Add small arctic animal erasers or figurines. Attach the cue card encouraging children to see how many animals they can find in the “snow”.

Ocean Sensory Bottle

Fill the bottle with water, adding a drop of blue food coloring. (Blue glitter is optional). Place small fish erasers/figurines of two different sizes in the bottle. Attach the cue card that asks how many big and little fish there are.

Sky Sensory Bottle

Add one drop of blue food coloring in the water bottle. Fill, then overfill, the bottle until the water is light blue. Drop in white craft pom poms of various sizes to simulate clouds. Attach the cue card that encourages children to make the clouds move.
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Dirt and Worms Sensory Bottle

Using dirt from at least two different places, fill the water bottle ¾ full. Add in plastic fishing worms. Attach the cue card asking children to examine the dirt up close. Place in the learning center with a handheld magnifying glass.

Tree Sensory Bottle

Fill the bottle with various tree/plant items such as sticks, leaves, small pinecones, fir tree branches, etc. Add the cue card challenging learners to use the bottle to create a rhythm (similar to a rain stick).

Recycling Sensory Bottle

Fill the bottle ¾ full of shredded paper. Add in small metal items such as screws, nails, pop can tabs, etc. You may also opt to include other items that are not metallic (wood dowels, buttons, lol). Attach the cue card asking children to find the metallic items in the bottle using a magnet. Place in the  earning center with a large handheld magnet.
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Preschool earth day activity

Create an inviting area for children to explore these sensory bottles by setting them up in a learning center with a magnifying glass, handheld magnet, and other earth-related items such as shells, rocks, pine cones, etc. You may also wish to include related books young learners can explore before or after sensory bottle investigation.

Printable Earth Day Hat Earth Day Worksheets  earth day activities for kids Earth Day is a great time to teach kids about caring for the planet. Kids will enjoy getting out and walking around the neighborhood, getting some exercise, while searching for different items such as a bird, flower and worm, as part of this Earth Day Scavenger Hunt. This Earth Day activity is fun for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students as it contains not only the name, but a cute picture too.  Simply download earth day worksheets pdf file with spring scavenger hunt  in color or black and white and you are ready to play!

Earth Day for Kids

Over 1 million FREE printable worksheets for toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grdae, 5th grade, and 6th grade students to make learning fun! Includes worksheets for kids (free worksheets, homeschool worksheets, and free worksheets) to practice math, english, grammar, science, history, alphabet letters and more! The best free printable worksheets for kids! FREE A to Z Letter Find- super cute printable abc worksheets to help kids practice letter recognition of both uppercase and lowercase letters. Perfect for toddler, preschool, and kindergarten age kids #alphabet #preschool #kindergarten Kids will have fun learning about our solar system with these free printable Solar System Worksheets for kids.  You’ll find solar system vocabulary, planets, sun, stars, moon phases, and so much more! These free worksheets are great for Kindergarteners, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, grade 4, grade 5, and grade 6 students.

Looking for more great content? We have over 1 million free printable worksheets conveniently arranged by subject or grade: super cute Pre k Worksheets, fun kindergarten worksheets, free 1st grade worksheets, handy 2nd grade worksheets, printable 3rd grade worksheets, and 4th grade worksheets

Looking for a fun abc printable to help kids learn their alphabet letters, learn vocabulary, and work on phonemic awareness. These hugely popular alphabet hats are a great way to introduce students to the letters in the alphabet from A to Z. There is a different hat to make for each letter - perfect to go with a letter of the week program for toddlers, preschoolers, pre k, and kindergartners. Help kids learn about what is under their skin with this fun, interactive, and hands on human body project for kids from toddler, preschool, pre k, kindergarten, first grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and 6th grade students. This can be a simple life size human body project or use our free printable templates to add bones of the body, organ templates, and more. This engaging science project is EASY and LOW PREP too.  100 Amazing Food experiments for summer science with kids

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables – www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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    awesome

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