Each year kids LOVE getting ready for Halloween. Picking out the perfect costume is a fun past-time that we all remember. Younger children, especially toddlers and preschoolers, also love Halloween-themed crafts.
These Halloween sensory bottle ideas will keep your child excited for Halloween while also giving them the perfect calming tool. Each bottle requires simple craft supplies that you can find at your local craft store and takes very little time to make. Each idea also includes a link to the sensory bottle instructions. Here are 20 spooky Halloween sensory bottle ideas that kids will love.
1. Glow in the Dark Creepy Crawlies
This creepy crawly sensory bottle is easy to make. All you need is a water bottle, glow-in-the-dark paint, plastic bugs, water, and green glitter (if you want!). Kids will love watching the creepy crawlies float both in the light and the dark.
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2. Googly Eyes Sensory Bottle
This sensory bottle requires a plastic water bottle or jar, a hot glue gun, liquid glycerin, googly eyes, and food coloring. Kids can use as many or as few googly eyes as they want, and they can make the bottle any color that they want with food coloring!
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3. Orange and Black Sensory Bottle
You will need red lentils, super glue, plastic spiders, and a dry plastic bottle to create this sensory bottle. Kids will love the sound of the lentils as they try to find spooky spiders. This kids' craft is the perfect Halloween activity.
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4. Halloween Confetti Sensory Bottle
This easy-to-make sensory bottle is perfect for kids who want to get creative. You can use any color of food coloring and a variety of Halloween confetti to make a unique bottle. All you need is a plastic water bottle, baby oil, a hot glue gun, confetti, and food coloring!
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5. Skeleton Sensory Bottle
This cute craft requires black glitter glue, silver sequins, and skeletons--that's it! This craft is perfect for the classroom as a Halloween activity or as a fun family craft activity. Kids can use their creativity as a toy or as a calming tool.
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6. Jellyfish Tentacles
This cool craft is a great craft idea for a Halloween-themed party or craft night. All you need to make this creation come to life is a bottle, blue soap, metallic glue sticks, a hot glue gun, a skewer, and parchment paper. This project also helps kids work on their coordination skills as well!
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7. Fish Eggs
The fish eggs bottle is super easy to make, and kids can get creative with what colors they want to use. You will need a variety of colored water beads, a bowl, a spoon, and cup, a funnel, and distilled water. This spooky item is a fantastic sensory tool for kids.
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8. Fish Scales
Fish scales are a fun texture for kids to look at and feel. They look weird and feel even weirder, so kids will love making this fish scale bottle. You will need dish soap, clear and silver sequins, and a funnel. Kids can get even more creative by changing up the sequin colors to match their favorite fish!
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9. Hagfish Slime
This slimy sensory bottle is one that kids will love to play with. You need green dish soap, cotton balls, a paintbrush, and a surface to paint on. You can get even more creative by using green food coloring and/or glow-in-the-dark paint. Kids will love playing with the different textures to make their sensory bottles come to life.
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10. Octopus Eyes
Like the previous craft activities, the octopus eyes bottle is fun to make and even more fun to play with. This sensory bottle requires a bottle, cotton balls, parchment paper, pearlized medium, glow-in-the-dark paint, black paint, and hair gel. This bottle is a little more complicated but worth the time!
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11. Mermaid Hair
Kids can get creative as they make this sensory bottle. You will need a bottle, metallic twine, scissors, blue food coloring, and mineral oil. You can also choose to include mermaid trinkets like sea shells, sea horses, mermaid-colored sequins, etc. This concoction is also the perfect calm-down tool.
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12. Octopus Arms
Octopuses are some of the world's creepiest creatures, but kids will love making this octopus-themed sensory bottle. You will need a yellow pool noodle, scissors, blue craft paint, ring-shaped beads, clear hair gel, and E6000 glue. This bottle takes some time, but turns out pretty cool!
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13. Monster Sensory Bottle
To make this spooky sensory bottle, you will need red, yellow, and green food coloring, glitter, baby oil, a hot glue gun, googly eyes, and any other Halloween-themed trinkets you can find. The googly eyes make this bottle monster-tastic!
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14. Vampire Sensory Bottle
This Halloween-themed vampire sensory bottle requires glitter glue, glitter, sticker eyes, white permanent marker or paint, warm water, and felt for wings. Make the bottle even more fun by adding a cape instead of wings. This glitter sensory bottle is great to use with breathing exercises.
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15. Ghost Sensory Bottle
For this sensory bottle, it's easier if you can find a white bottle. You will also need googly eyes, a bell, book rings, rice, a permanent marker, and a rubber band. The bottle will sound like a rattle and kids will love making music with their spooktastic bottle.
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16. Pumpkin Sensory Bottle
For this sensory activity, you can use either a jar or an empty water bottle. You will also need warm water, colored glitter glue, glitter, eyes and mouth stickers or permanent marker, orange pipe cleaners, and a rubber band. Kids will love making a funny face on the pumpkin!
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17. Bouncy Ball Sensory Bottle
This sensory activity works best with a large bottle. You will need bouncy balls...and that's pretty much it! You can also add things like wire, pipe cleaners, or ribbon for added texture. Bonus if you can find glow-in-the-dark bouncy eyes balls to complete your Halloween theme!
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18. Floating Jack-O-Lanterns
This sensory bottle is ridiculously easy! Like the previous activity, this bottle works best with a large bottle. All you need are sequins, plastic jack-o-lanterns, and clear glue. Kids will love watching the jack-o-lanterns float up and down as they calm down.
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19. Color Mixing Sensory Bottle
These sensory bottles are super easy to adapt for Halloween. Use spooky colors like orange and black or green and black to make a Halloween-themed bottle. All you need are watercolors, candy dye, mineral oil, and two funnels. Kids will love watching the colors interact.
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20. Candy Corn Discovery Bottle
This super simple sensory bottle only requires orange, white, and yellow paper and a paper shredder or scissors. This may be the cheapest and easiest bottle you've ever made for your toddler. You can add small beads for texture as well! Kids will love trying to get the beads from top to bottom and vice versa.
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