I think that we may be newly obsessed with discovery bottles in our house. Â First was the Magnetic Field version. Now, we’re playing with color and light with some awesome submersible tealights. Â Make one for some fun nighttime sensory play for the kiddos (and you). Â This post contains affiliate links.
Color and Light Discovery Bottle Supplies Needed
- 1 Voss water bottle
- Acrylic crystal diamond confetti table scatter {affiliate}
- 1-2 Submersible color-changing tea lights {affiliate}
- Clear packing tape (optional)
This whole project came about when I saw some submersible tealights. Â They’re meant for table decorations for weddings and fancy events and come in lots of colors. Â Some even change colors every few seconds. Â They looked really awesome, so I bought a pair to try. Â And they did not disappoint!!
This is really sooo easy to make. Â Grab your Voss water bottle, pour out the water into a pitcher, and turn on your tealights. Â It’s important to use a Voss water bottle or other wide mouth bottle because otherwise the tealights won’t fit through the mouth. Now add a few crystal diamonds. Then a tealight. Â Some more diamonds, the other tealight and the rest of the crystal diamonds. Fill with water and screw on the cap. Â For extra security, you can add a piece of clear packing tape to seal it shut.
I hope you like the pictures… Â I kind of really love them. Â And only partially because I hid in a 3 ft. x 4 ft. closet in the dark to take them :) Â But they really seem to do the bottle justice. Â If you want to see the light and colors in action, watch this video.
Discovery Bottle Light Play
A bunch of us got together with our kiddos to do some learning with light. Â Check out these other fun light discovery bottles.
Rainbow Discovery Bottle || Preschool Inspirations
Rainbow Bubble Beads Discovery Bottle || Modern Preschool
Math Dominoes Discovery Bottle || Sugar Aunts
Phonics Discovery Dishes || One Time Through
For even more fun discovery bottles check out the home page of our Discovery Bottles Blog Hop over at Preschool Inspirations.
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This is AMAZING!!! My kids are begging me to make one after watching your video. :)
Thanks Katie! It was fun :)
I love the idea, but, practically speaking, the batteries will run out rather soon, won’t they?
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