Snow Sensory Bottles for Winter Sensory Play

Making Snow Sensory Bottles is actually simple and easy to do. All you need are a few supplies and you’ll be ready to enjoy these beautiful calming sensory jars. In fact, this snow sensory play activity is one of the best indoor snow day ideas, ever.

No matter if you have other Winter Sensory Bottles or not, you need to add this one to your house. It’s a great way to have snow sensory play without having to step foot outside!

Winter Sensory Bottles

Snow Sensory Bottles

As you can tell from looking at it, this Snow Sensory Bottle is pretty and make perfect calm down bottles that look like winter. Enjoying it from the comfort of your own home where it’s nice and warm is just another added perk!

So whether you have real snow outside or you live where it’s warm and you want to bring a little bit of the beauty of winter indoors for your babies and toddlers these winter sensory bottles are exactly what you need.

Think of this as a blizzard in a bottle it can be inspired by your child’s favorite snow-themed book, A Snowy Day, Dream Snow, The Story of Snow or any other favorite. It’s great to add to a theme for preschool and kindergarten too.

What you will need to make your Snowy Sensory Bottles is in this picture below. However, I have it displayed in a recipe list form to print out towards the bottom of the page. Have Fun!

How to Make Sensory Bottles

1 (16 ounce) plastic storage/sensory bottle (available at Michaels, Walgreens or similar bottles here)
2 to 3 (6 ounce) bottles Elmer’s Glue in clear
About 1 cup warm water
About 1 tablespoon glitter or confetti (if desired)
Winter Toys (if desired)

For this project, we used:

Empty one bottle of glue into the bottle.

Fill the empty glue bottle about half full with warm water (about ¼ cup) and seal with the lid. Shake well to combine the remaining glue with the water. Pour into jar with glue and shake or stir to combine.

If you are adding glitter or toys, add part of the glitter and toys into the glue mixture.

Seal the jar and shake well. If the glitter or confetti does not move easily, add more warm water. If the glitter or confetti moves to quickly, add additional glue. Continuing adding in layers with the glitter and toys until you achieve your desired effect.