Gentle Rain Sensory Bottle

Update: I created this Gentle Rain Sensory Bottle a couple of years ago, and it still looks beautiful! I have added a new video and photos. If you are interested in my Sensory Bottle Light, you can find out how I made it here. 🙂

This is the first of my Seasons and Weather Sensory Bottles. Colorado is pretty dry overall. So, when it rains, it’s such a treat. I’ll sit next to the front door, watching the raindrops dance in the street, smelling the amazing fresh scent, and listening to the soothing pitter-pat. Rain is so relaxing and refreshing! I wanted my spring sensory bottle to remind me of all of these wonderful qualities.

I had some very specific criteria for the sensory bottle. I wanted the “raindrops” to be big enough to see individually, I wanted them to fall slowly – but not take more than a couple of minutes, and I REALLY wanted to figure out a way to put a cloud in the bottle for the rain to fall from.

The first criteria was easily met with chunky glitter. I opted for blue and silver. I experimented with different ratios of water and clear glue to get the fall rate right where I wanted it – about one and a half minutes. Making the clouds was a bit more tricky.

My first idea was to use cotton balls for the clouds, but they sank to the bottom of the bottle. Next I tried pom poms, but they sank, too. I don’t know why, but I decided to try tinsel pom poms also, and voila! They floated! The problem with them was that the tinsel sticking out everywhere made it so that the pom poms were not close together. Trimming the tinsel off was an easy solution and I was left with cute little white pom poms that floated in the bottle and clumped together to form a nice cloud!

I typically use VOSS water bottles for making sensory bottles, but Target did not have any last time I went. I saw these Core water bottles and thought I would give them a try for my four seasons sensory bottles. They worked out well and I like the nice blue lids, they complement the rain bottle nicely.

I am very pleased with the way the bottle turned out. After I shake it up, the pom pom “clouds” take about 10-15 seconds to float to the top and settle. The chunky glitter “rain” gently falls for about 1.5 minutes. It’s like having my own personal rain cloud! 

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If you are interested in making a Gentle Rain Sensory Bottle, here is what I used:

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• Core Hydration water bottle – Target
• Fill 2/3 of the way with water
• Add 12 – 0.75 inch white tinsel pom poms (with tinsel trimmed off) – Michael’s
• Add 1 tsp blue and silver chunky glitterclear Elmer’s glue (approximately 6 oz) – Amazon
• Use super glue to glue the lid shut – Amazon

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Thank you for checking out my Gentle Rain Sensory Bottle!

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

Hosea 6:3

~ Sarah ~

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