St. Patrick's Day Sensory Bottle DIY for Preschoolers -

Looking for meaningful ways to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Even if you’re not Irish, it’s hard to avoid the glittery green holiday that sort of perks up a sometimes ‘blah’ month. Celebrating with kids is fun because they’re just learning traditions, vocabulary, and tall tales associated with the fun holiday.

This St. Patrick’s Day sensory bottle DIY for Preschoolers is the perfect easy project you can make together, and then your kids can enjoy it for the rest of the month! Sensory bottles provide tons of meaningful development for preschoolers. I love this one because it’s made out of dry ingredients, so it sort of changes the sensory experience into one of sound and texture. Enjoy making this project as you spend time with your little ones!

DIY sensory bottle for St. Patrick's Day.

Learning About DIY Sensory Bottles:

MAKING SENSORY BOTTLES WITH PRESCHOOLERS

SENSORY PLAY IS A CRUCIAL COMPONENT OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION. YOU CAN MAKE AND USE SENSORY BOTTLES TO USE A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS.

Wondering what to put in your sensory bottle? Turns out sensory bottle ingredients are as varied and creative as what you might have on hand! I’ve used everything from play dough to tissue paper.

This sensory bottles uses strictly dry ingredients. If we’re making them as a class, I like to give each student a paper plate for the ingredients.

In addition to learning about St. Patty’s Day, the sensory bottle provides other benefits:

Soothing sounds to use to calm down or relieve anxiety
Colors
Fine motor by shaking, grabbing, flipping, turning, etc.
Focus/attention
Stimulates curiosity

Fun and easy DIY sensory bottle for St. Patrick's Day.

What Can Preschoolers Learn From Sensory Bottles?

EASY SENSORY BOTTLES

ST. PATRICK’S DAY ACTIVITIES FOR PRESCHOOLERS CAN GO WAY BEYOND THE SPECIAL DAY. MAKE SENSORY BOTTLES ALL YEAR LONG TO EXPLORE THEMES AND SKILLS.

I created this sensory bottle without water, glue or hair gel. The intent was to provide a hearing sensory experience as the items clink and clank around in the bottle.

Encourage language development while children are playing with the sensory bottle:

What items do you see?
Which objects make the most noise? Least?
What happens if you shake the bottle?
Is it different when you roll the bottle?
Can you make the items in the bottle move quietly? Loudly? Fast? Slow?

Gold coins and sprinkles inside a plastic bottle to create the St. Patrick's Day sensory bottle.

Why Is It Important For Kids To Do Sensory Activities?

Besides the fact that kids love engaging all their senses, there are lots of other reasons you should make sensory bottles, play in sensory bins, use calm down jars, and activate all of their senses to learn.

Brain Connections

Sensory activities, beginning with babies and toddlers, activate important areas of the brain. Connections begin to form that will later be pathways for learning to read and more.

Curiosity

Nurturing a general sense of curiosity in kids is important. They definitely have an innate sense of curiosity already! Sensory activities bring out a need to explore with all of the senses and ask questions to learn.

Language

Engaging in sensory activities promote talking and new vocabulary. With each new experience, children get opportunities to talk about how things feel, taste, smell, sound, or look.

Motor Skills

Grasping, pinching, cutting, gluing, and other motor movements improve the muscles in the hands, and the rest of the body. This development is important for kids and comes naturally with sensory activities.

Tools you’ll need

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Don’t worry about making a special trip to the store. You can get all the supplies for this activity right here. Click the pictures above to get what you need.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Clover Book

Happy St. Patrick's Day Curious George Book

Pete the Cat The Great Leprechaun Chase book

How To Make the St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bottle

How to Make the Activity

Supplies:

Plastic Bottle with Lid
Green Sugar Sprinkles
Fancy Sprinkles
Gold Coins

Directions:

Making this St. Patrick Day sensory activity is super easy! No free printable, water or glue required!

Pour green sprinkles into the clean/empty sensory bottle.
Top with the fancy sprinkles.
Finally, add the gold coins.
Shake! Roll! Flip!

*Optional: Secure lid with glue.

This St. Patrick’s Day preschool activity is intended to activate the sense of sound, as the sprinkles and coins clink and clank around the bottle.

Ingredients for the St. Patrick's day sensory bottle.

Add green sugar sprinkles first to make the DIY sensory bottle.

Green sugar sprinkles and rainbow sprinkles for the DIY sensory bottle.

Add coins on top of the rainbow sprinkles and green sprinkles for the easy sensory bottle.

Our Favorite St. Patrick’s Day Books:

We can’t live without these!

Once your child’s creativity is sparked with this fun activity, take it a step further with these engaging resources:

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Pete the Cat: The Great Leprechaun Chase: Includes 12 St. Patrick’s Day Cards, Fold-Out Poster, and Stickers! How to Catch a Leprechaun Valerie Fox and the Leprechaun’s Box: A Rhyming St. Patrick’s Day Read Aloud Story Book for Kids Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Curious George I Spy St. Patrick’s Day! Counting, Shape and Color Games for Toddlers and Preschoolers: St Patricks Day Activity Book for Kids Ages 2-5 and Babies (I Spy Toddler and Preschooler Books) Pout-Pout Fish: Lucky Leprechaun (A Pout-Pout Fish Paperback Adventure)

Sensory Bin

Place the ingredients in a ‘pot of gold’ sensory bin and let children create their own St. Patrick’s Day activity for kids. They can scoop, secure and shake to their hearts’ delight.

Scavenger Hunt

Place other small objects (shamrocks, leprechauns, rainbows) in the bottle and go on a ‘scavenger hunt‘ to find all the items.

Glow in the Dark

Add beads that glow in the dark for an added sensory experience for kids.

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