Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Junk Jar.

Now I do know that there have been some people posting about not using food in crafts, sensory bins...etc. So if you are a blogger against multi-purposed food then stop reading now.

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.

 So here's how:

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.


Totally a hit at my house. Meadow has been stealing it from Hudson and scooting her little bum away just as fast as she can go.

7 comments:

Our Little Family said...

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

Natalie PlanetSmarty said...

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.

Andrea said...

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!

Adriana said...

Love it! I have some old peanut butter jars in the recycle box. Thanks for the idea!

Debbie said...

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!

Jackie said...

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. :-)

Ticia said...

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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