These water beads can provide endless fun! You can create games by hiding toys in the bin with these beads, fill up balloons for additional sensory items... As always, make sure this is age appropriate for your little one and always under supervision.
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What You Need
- Water Beads ~ we bought ours from Amazon and was delivered in just 2 days! {best price I've found so far also!}
- Sensory Table ~ we found a great one from Lakeshore Learning
- You can also use any container like this shoe box from The Container Store.
How 2 Play
My kids absolutely love watching YouTube videos of kids playing with (and in) piles of Orbeezs/ Water Beads and I'm sure they're not the only ones. I found the best value on Amazon: 20,000 beads for only $6.99! I can't tell you how excited I am because this can create endless fun.
She loved being able to pour the small beads into our sensory table.
- As always, make sure your little ones are old enough to this kind of play and that they're always supervised. Play Safely
I let her pour the water. We didn't measure but make sure you pour plenty because these beads will soak up a lot!
Letting her be responsible for preparing activities promotes responsibility as well as confidence.
This gave a good opportunity to explain about how objects can soak up water and how the beads start out as very small, hard beads.
Here's a close-up look at what the beads look like when they're just starting out.
My kids were amazing at how the beads kept growing over time and loved swishing them. This is only about 200 beads, which I though was plenty to start out the play with.
Love the bright colors. We kept this sensory table filled for probably over a week and the colors did fade over time.
We started finding new ways to play with the beads. Creating a sensory balloon is super simple and fun.
- cut the end of a plastic bottle.
- insert the end (where you would drink) into the balloon.
- allow the kids to pour and squish the beads down into the balloon
- remove the plastic bottle piece, tie the ballon
- squish away! Could also be used as a good calming toy.
Where To Buy
