Hush/Sensory Bottles

Months ago, I found a pin on Pinterest for something called a Hush Bottle, and googled it to get more instructions. Intrigued, I clicked on it and what I found was so visually entertaining, I knew I just had to try it! These bottles can be used just for visual stimulation, or for time outs - give your kid the bottle, shaken, for a time out and let them come back when the glitter has settled.

The ingredients, so simple:

A plastic bottle
Ultra fine glitter
Glitter glue (pearlized is best, but if you can't find that, use a pearlizing medium)
Hot, but not boiling water

Food colouring, if desired (I used gel colours)

I could not find pearlized glitter glue,  so as I noted above,  I just added an acrylic pearlizing medium and that seemed to do the trick. 

There isn't really a set recipe for this.  I ended up just playing around until I thought it looked cool. For this reason,  DON'T fill the bottle completely until you're sure you like the way it looks. When you do, fill it and super glue the cap on!

What I did:

I put a bit of pearlizer in...

Then, I added water and shook to blend.

Then I added about half a bottle of glitter glue, a bit more very hot water, and shook till the glue was completely melted and the were no clumps.

Next,  I added glitter and food colouring - I eyeballed it, but I probably added about 1.5 tbsp of glitter, and enough food colouring to make it look nice - and shook well.

Food colouring at the neck of the bottle, glitter starting to sink to the bottom.

I played around a bit after this, and ended up adding more glitter glue: as a rule off thumb, if you want the glitter to settle faster,  use less glue;  if you want it to settle slower,  add more glue!

Fully mixed and shaken

Since Jaxson is too young for time outs,  I made these purely for fun and entertainment,  not for time out timers, so I didn't need the glitter to settle all that quickly. These settled after about 12 minutes.

Completely settled

I'm incredibly happy with the results.  Even Adrian liked them!

Goof....

I made them during Jaxson's afternoon nap, and we ended up needing to wake him up, because it was getting late, so he woke up a little out of sorts. These worked so well as a distraction! He really liked them!

My tired boy 

I will probably end up making these again when Jaxson's older and needing time outs!