Underwater I Spy Alphabet Bottle
Topics: Preschool, Kindergarten, Reading, Arts and Crafts
Sparkly, glittery water is sure to attract little eyes. This alphabet bottle is fun to make and a great activity to keep your child busy either inside on a rainy day or traveling in the car! This project helps your child recognize letters in a creative way. You can also talk to your child about recycling as you reuse a plastic bottle.
What You Need:
- an empty water or plastic soda bottle (best to use one without ridges)
- alphabet beads from the craft store
- glitter
- sequins or any tiny sparkly things
- corn syrup
- water
- piece of paper
- highlighter
- glue gun (optional)
What You Do:
- Write the alphabet from A-Z on a sheet of paper. Have your child lay all the beads from A-Z on the table. Check that she has all 26 letters and then drop them into the empty bottle.
- Have your child drop in sequins. Help your child sprinkle some glitter inside.
- Fill half the bottle with water and the other half with corn syrup. The corn syrup slows down the motion of the contents and helps the glitter not to stick together.
- You can hot glue the lid onto the bottle so little hands don’t spill.
- Shake it up and watch the pretty water! How many letters can your child spy? Using the alphabet paper you wrote, have her highlight each letter she can find. Can she also spot the letters in her name? Have fun shaking!
Tina Cho has been an elementary teacher for 11 years, mainly in the kindergarten classroom. She is currently a freelance writer.
Comments from readers
Check out the many preschool activities and worksheets found on these two pages on Education.com:
http://www.education.com/activity/preschool/
http://www.education.com/worksheets/preschool/
Good luck!
The instructions say to use one bottle, and fill half of it with water, and the other half with corn syrup (that's 50% water, 50% corn syrup). Depending on the size of the bottle you use, that will determine the exact amount of water and corn syrup.