Yesterday I made a "junk jar"! Some people call them I-Spy jars, but since my motivation for this came from my friend Jackie over at Pocket Full of Posies (who has really great alphabet and sensory bin ideas) I decided to use her name for it.
Materials:
Clean peanut butter jar (ours is a no nuts substitute due to allergies)
small "junk" collected from around your house
Rice
Step 1: Open jar
Step 2: Put junk into jar
Step 3: Cover with rice
Step 4: Replace lid on jar (you can glue it with hot glue if you want to but i kind of want to change my junk every once in a while so I didn't)
Step 5: Shake
Step 6: Spy your junk.
7 comments:
Love the "Junk Jar" name! We have one but I used a Mason jar and I'm always nervous that she'll drop it and shatter it (not sure why I used glass... Lol).
I'm not against food in crafts. In fact, I'd rather use a bag of rice, rather than buying plastics or styrofoam. But, I understand the mentality of not wasting food.
Although, this is certainly NOT a waste of food. Love it!!
-Jill
Hey, Food Police is following your blog :D I wonder how long will it be before Hudson starts asking for those things nicely sitting inside of the jar. In our case it would have been mere hours.
I have been meaning to do something like this, but never thought of putting it in a jar, I was thinking of doing rice in a clear tupperware/bin. Thanks for the tip!
Love it! I have some old peanut butter jars in the recycle box. Thanks for the idea!
I was wondering the samething as Natalie. I thought hot glue the lid down, now Selena would throw a fit, she would want her goodies!
Thanks for the link, Sara! I am glad the idea worked for your children. My kids have totally been loving their junk jars. However, I know my boys too well to think that they wouldn't open the jar and try to get the "junk" out of it. You are brave. :-)
My kids got a smaller version of this in the mail and loved it. I keep intending to make it, but haven't yet.
So, the alternative I saw to using rice was using the little seed beads (can you imagine how much that would be if you bought them?)
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