More I Spy Jars

We found the sand - and Joel has had a wonderful time playing in it. It's a very high quality sand, left over from a building site. Some friends of ours ended up with 3-4 wheelbarrow loads of it many years ago. It's working great for our project.

The jars, however, are not.

We put too many things to find into the bottles - and here I was feeling like a scrooge for not putting MORE!

Kendra has carefully written out every single item onto 3x5 cards - separating the items into 3 levels - Easy, Normal, and Hard, based on the size of the object to find.

We put Joel's into a Large peanut butter jar - and that's working much better.

I would also advise putting rubber cement onto the ring of the lid before screwing it down the LAST time. We used packaging tape - and other than really looking terrible - the boys are already picking at it and trying to remove it.




For more ideas on making these nifty jars....

http://www.thosegreathousewomen.com/maincatalog.html

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/578029/how_to_make_an_i_spy_bag_or_i_spy_jar.html?cat=24

http://ajpadilla.com/patterns/reduce-reuse-recycle/i-spy-bag

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16963221

http://chasingcheerios.blogspot.com/2008/04/brown-bear-i-spy-bottle.html


Wonder if I could make and SELL these? Hmmmmm.....

I've got a WHOLE tub of sand!