We thought it would be fun to do a craft project with the girls and I decided to share the idea. We love the idea of the bags with hidden items in them that keep your kids quiet during church. We didn't really want to spend what they charge in stores and wanted to put more things in since our girls are so young. We started off with two Sobe life water bottles. I found out that they shrink wrap their labels on instead of gluing them which means I don't have to try and scrub the glue off. We purchased two bags of sand from Michael's for $3 each and I mixed them. You could also use tiny beads although we found the sand works just as well for half the price.
We purchased some buttons and alphabet beads to put inside. We also rounded up some quarter machine objects and a few spiders from our recent trip to Chuck E Cheese. Make sure you write down a detailed description so you have a list of what to find. You can put whatever you think your child....or husband in our case would like to discover. You can also put as many things as you would like. We put a lot of items in so our girls always had a few things showing since they are so young. A few of the items are shown here.
We gave each of the girls a bag of 'treasures' to put into their bottles as we poured sand in every once in a while.
I decided to glue my lids on as an added security.
After making the bottles I realized that not only are they going to be good for church, but car rides and Dr visits. I hate sanitizing toys that have been dropped on the Dr office floor. Now one quick wipe with a Clorox wipe and it is clean and sanitized.
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