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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? I Spy Bottle

I recently added this Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? I Spy bottle to E's Montessori shelf.  We had fun reading the book and looking for the different animals in the bottle.  I made this I Spy bottle for O a few years ago using lentils instead of rice. 



I really wish I'd put the pictures on both sides of the little cards.  It can be frustrating to look for the animals when all of the cards seem to turn over to the back at the same time and stubbornly refuse to turn back over no matter how many ways we flip, shake, and roll the bottle.  Although, to be honest, I was the only one who was frustrated...E didn't seem to mind at all :)


9 comments:

  1. This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing. My little Bee loves to shake things and this is a great way to make noise and learn. : )

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  2. I spy bottle's are just wonderful. I made one for the Very Hungry Caterpillar with little food trinkets in it. I also just made one in a thick plastic bag (which I think is a travel toiletry bag). My little man (23 mths) likes feeling the bag and moving the rice around. Just adds another sensory dimension to the activity.

    Funnily enough, Brown Bear was going to be my next 'I Spy' bag :)

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  3. Pencil cases also make great I Spy bags! I'm planning to make one using dried beans and small plastic farm animals for E soon. She loves playing with my bags of dried beans, so I think she'll love having a bag of her own!

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  4. love it great idea to take a fav book . i did an ABC Eye Spy bottle not to long go and it is loved very much thanks for sharing

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  5. Very cute. We still love that book!

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  6. Love this idea! I can think of a handfull of books we can incorporate this into!

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  7. hello little fun thing to add for my little girlies that come over for play group next week! It's my turn, and I was planning on doing brown bear brown bear...but how fun to make I spy's for each of them to look at while we read! thanks for that!

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  8. I did I Spy bottles for my kids from a Powerade bottle. They're bigger. Since rice got so heavy (and expensive!) I used dried corn cobs which I found in the pet department of walmart. It was something like $3 for a huge bag which is still mostly full after filling five bottles. I also used various things from around the house, legos, army guys, buttons, coins, paper clips, silly bands, you get the idea. Since the Powerade bottles have a wider mouth you can stuff bigger things in the bottle. They're also really light weight making them easier for little hands to maneuver.

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  9. Love the idea of this book as an I-Spy bottle. I just made my first homemade I-Spy bottle for my oldest with the alphabet, she loved it.
    And we recently made paper puppets for our Brown Bear book and then played our version of the book outside as an I-Spy game. So fun.

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