Water Marbles

Inspired by a picture from Play At Home Mom, I decided to make a sensory tub with water marbles. I went to the dollar store and bought 4 cans of decorative water marbles (non-toxic) and a big food storage container. The water marbles were clear which was okay, but I decided I wanted to dye on of the cans blue to give it more of an ocean/lake look.

I first dumped the one can onto paper towels and let them dry out a little so they could absorb the color later.

After drying out I put half of them back in the container and put one drop of blue food coloring in. Then put the rest in and put one more drop of food coloring on top. I closed the lid and shook it up.

Then I filled the container with water, shook it up, drained it, filled with water, shook it, drained it...etc. Until the water draining out was only slightly blue (didn't want the kids hands dyed blue from too much color!)

Then I added the blue water marbles with the clear. When mixed together they almost all looked blue. I put in a couple small containers with lids and scoops for The Prince to play with.

Both my little ones loved this! I love that it is a small enough container to bring with places (like Memaw's & Papa's) but big enough to play in. This sensory play tool is awesome (I love to play with this with the kids too) and you can't go wrong for a total of $5!