Both children and adults will love this Frozen-inspired snowstorm glitter sensory bottle DIY.
Focusing on the objects in this Frozen-inspired DIY glitter sensory bottle can help children and adults calm down and focus.
Sensory jars like this snowflake glitter bottle are most often used as a tool to help calm an overwhelmed child, or, as a meditation technique for children. As the bottle clears so does the mind. Calm down sensory bottles work wonders for adults too!
For more information about sensory bottles including quick and easy DIY recipes hop over to have a look at Calm Down Sensory Bottles 101.
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Frozen-Inspired Sensory Bottle Materials
- Water bottle, empty sensory bottle, mason jar, or, any other recycled bottle that will hold water without leaking.
- Blue glitter glue
- Liquid hand soap
- Snowflake sequins — snowflake confetti mix, sparkly snow, silver snowflakes, and/or iridescent snowflakes
- Blue glitter tempera paint or blue tempera paint
- Fine turquoise glitter
- 1-quart glass liquid measuring cup or mixing bowl
- Whisk
- Hot water
- Superglue
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How to Make a Frozen-inspired Snowflake Glitter Sensory Bottle
This DIY Frozen-inspired snowstorm sensory bottle is a fun DIY calm down toy for kids. Think of this snowstorm sensory bottle as a giant snowglobe that can help toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, and elementary-aged kids learn how to self-regulate. Else and Anna would love it!
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Snowstorm Glitter Sensory Bottle Step by Step Directions
Time needed: 25 minutes.
Have a look at our tips in Calm Down Sensory Bottles 101 before attempting to make your first sensory bottle.
- Gather materials and tools
- Add hot water and glitter glue, tempera paint, and fine glitter to a 1-quart measuring cup
First, add hot water (boiling is best) and a good squeeze (about 1 or 2 tablespoons) of blue glitter glue into a 1-quart glass liquid measuring cup. Next, add a squirt of blue glitter tempera paint or blue tempera paint and sprinkle in a pinch of fine turquoise glitter.
- Mix ingredients together and quickly pour into a bottle
Mix ingredients together with a whisk and quickly pour the Frozen-inspired snowstorm sensory bottle mixture into a recycled bottle. Don’t pour it all the way to the top yet. You may find that you need to add a little more glue, glitter, or paint.
- Drop snowflake confetti into the bottle
Next, add snowflake confetti of choice. Several options are listed in the materials section.
- Mix in a little clear hand soap
Add approximately 1/8 cup of clear liquid hand soap to the snowflake sensory bottle mixture.
- Consider adding more of the basic ingredients
Determine if more handsoap, glitter, glitter glue, or glitter tempera paint needs to be added to the Frozen-inspired snowstorm sensory bottle. Pour a little bit of the sensory bottle solution out in order to make room for more of this or that if needed.
- Top the sensory bottle off
Add a little more water, or liquid hand soap to the snowstorm sensory until the glitter mixture is all the way to the top. Next, put the lid on, and give it a good shake.
Snowstorm Glitter Sensory Bottle DIY Tips and Troubleshooting
Don’t glue the lid onto this Frozen-inspired sensory bottle right away. It’s hard to make changes after the cap is glued on.
Because we used large snowflake confetti for this Frozen-inspired DIY calm down bottle we soon learned that we needed to make the solution more viscous so they would float and swirl instead of sink right to the bottom. This is why we added 1/8 cup of clear liquid hand soap into the mixture. It worked wonderfully!
If there are bubbles at the top of the snowflake sensory bottle, slowly fill with hot water and allow the bubbles to flow over the side until there are no bubbles left.
If we were to make this DIY glitter sensory bottle again, we would avoid regular (non-snowflake) and painted sequins. The paint chips off, which didn’t really matter for this bottle because they just added more blue chips and color to the mix.
The problem with sequins is that they tend to stick to the side of the snowstorm sensory jar, rather than swirl.
Once you are happy with the way that you Frozen-inspired snowstorm sensory bottle moves and flows, glue the cap on and pass it over to the kiddos. Unless you are keeping it for yourself of course. 😉
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How did you keep yours from getting foamy?
Hi Ashley! My bottles are always foamy when I first make them and shake them up. They can take up to a day to settle. Once settled they never foam up again. If yours do, make sure you take all the air out. I hope that helps!
this is beautiful! It looks like it would be cold to touch lol. I’m new to making sensory bottles, but wanted to make one for each season so hopefully mine turns out as gorgeous as this. I can’t wait to see it in motion
Lol! It does look cold to the touch Kaci, so glad you like it! Sending you all my sensory bottle making ju-ju so it’s just as awesome!
I made some for my 3 year old preschool class who are pretty rough on the bottles. They managed to actually break the caps on the Voss bottles!! Is there something I did wrong?
No Jennifer, You did nothing wrong. Voss bottles can break if thrown around or dropped. This is the only con I have found with them.
Use duct tape or electrical tape on the lid. It helps.
Brilliant solution Kasey! Thank you for sharing 🙂
This is my first attempt at a sensory bottle! I used a bottle that I had at home, but I had trouble adding some items to the solution, because the opening was small. How large is the opening for the VOSS bottles? And what size bottle do you use? The 330 ml size? I thought of adding buttons that I bought for the bottle, but a few of the buttons wouldn’t fit into the opening. I hope I can find the items you suggested for the Frozen bottle!!
So glad you are giving it a try Patty! This bottle is actually one of the most challenging of my bottles to make, but it was my first too 🙂 I use the 500ml Voss bottles. They have a larger opening than most bottles at almost an inch and 1/2 diameter. This is another reason I like to use them. You can easily fit fun items in them like the larger snowflakes. I think you can probably bend the snowflakes just a bit to get them inside bottles with smaller openings. They are flexible but will stay permanently bent if folded too far. Good luck!
Hi I am new to making these but I wanted to make one for my grandson I have all the ingredients in and gave it a shake but everything just went straight to the bottom. So I poured out some water and added more soap and it still will not float just straight to the bottom like rocks! What did I do wrong? Help!
Hello, I’m so sorry it did not come out as you expected. Did you heat the water and mix it with the glue before adding the other ingredients? It won’t work if everything is added all at once.
Hi. I’m planning on making these with kids. I was trying to figure out for how many kids the materials you listed are. Do you have any suggestions?
Besides the bottles and doing the math on the liquids you will need, the rest should be enough? A little glitter goes a long way!
What are your pro/con comments on plastic water bottles?
Sorry for delayed response Rebecca. This is a loaded question for me and why we prefer to use bottles from the recycle bin. We get ours from the recycle bin at my husband’s work because we choose not to purchase plastics. At home, we filter our own water and use reusable stainless steel canteens for our water. Using mason jars to make sensory bottles is another option, but as you know glass can be dangerous if broken!
I like your Frozen sensory bottle much better than Amazon’s.
Thanks for the vote of approval, Pam! We always appreciate hearing when people love our sensory bottles. <3
Will any clear gel hand soap work? I am not finding the particular one listed. Just curious if it makes a difference.
Hi Laura. Any clear gel hand soap should work, yes. The one you use may have slightly different viscosity, so you may need a bit more, or a bit less than mentioned. Good luck!
Can we use blue food coloring instead of tempera paint? Since that’s what we have on hand.
Great question, Pricilla!
Yes, blue food coloring would work perfectly. Put a drop or two in and see if you like the color and add more if needed!