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How to waste about 20 minutes

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For today’s foray into the world of arts & crafts, Poppy and I used FamilyEducation.com’s tutorial for building a wave bottle. Here’s how we did it.

FamilyEducation.com’s Wave Bottle for Toddlers
Materials

  • Clean, empty 16-ounce soda bottle with cap
  • Water
  • Food coloring
  • Glitter, sequins, or beads (optional)
  • Baby oil
  • Quick-bonding glue

    Directions

  • Fill the clean bottle with water to about one-third full.
  • Add a few drops of food coloring and glitter, sequins, or beads (optional), then fill the rest of the bottle with baby oil try to find some baby oil. Find a wee bottle of deliciousapricot-scented baby oil. Decide peanut oil should work. Fill the rest of the bottle with peanut oil.
  • Become dismayed by peanut oil’s slightly gross hue. Add more food coloring (lots).
  • Try to glue the cap securely onto the bottle by applying the glue to the inside of the bottle cap and screwing it on. Glue fingers together. Get not a single drop of glue on inside of bottle cap.
  • Your child will enjoy gently shaking the bottle to produce beautiful waves ignoring the bottle and pulling all of the socks out of her sock drawer while you try to unstick your fingers.
  • Throw your hands in the air. Wave ’em like you just don’t care (optional). Dump still-icky-colored concoction, wash out bottle, vow to buy baby oil, glitter and beads. Go fold the laundry.