A “calm down” bottle can be used to help your child self-regulate when becoming emotionally overwhelmed or over-stimulated by his or her environment. Your child will enjoy shaking the bottle and watching the glitter settle to the bottom. Keep them on hand for long car rides, grocery store meltdowns, or as a tool to help your child calm during a “time-out”!
You’ll need:
-Empty water bottle (smooth bottles work best!)
-Glitter glue
-Fine glitter
-Clear gel glue
-Super glue
Directions:
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Clean water bottle and remove labels.
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Fill water bottle ¾ of the way with warm water.
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Add glitter glue and fine glitter. Shake bottle to mix and melt glitter glue.
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Add clear gel glue and fill to the top with cool water.
(You can play with the consistency at this point…more gel glue will make the glitter settle slowly and more water will make it settle more quickly.)
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Secure the top back on with super glue.
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Enjoy!
Photo credit: By Inkwina (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons