Minion Sensory Bottle With Loom Bands

We love the Minion Movie! Of course we also love Despicable Me! Why not create a few fun activities to accompany your favorite movies? Our Minion Slime was a huge hit with everyone. Sensory or discovery bottles are fun ways to engage the sense of sight. You can also learn a little something too, depending on the theme.

Quick and Fun Minion Sensory Bottle Activity for Kids

Make your very own minion sensory bottle! 

We have created numerous science discovery bottles and homemade sensory bottles including glitter sensory bottles! I think this Minion sensory bottle is my number one favorite! Loom bands are pretty light, and I tried various methods to get them to move around the whole bottle smoothly.

My best solution was a combination of water and hair gel!

You can grab a bottle of inexpensive clear hair gel at the store for your Minion sensory bottle. I did try clear glue which I have used for our glitter bottles, but it wasn’t think enough to suspend the loom bands throughout the whole bottle.

If you simply use water, you get a nice sink or float activity, but actually getting the loom bands to slowly move through the Minion sensory bottle won’t work. It makes an interesting science experiment if you want to explore different liquids!

Supplies Needed:

• Yellow Loom Bands {I purchased small packages of colors for $.99 at our craft store}
• VOSS Water Bottle { I have a few of these I reuse for different sensory bottle ideas!}
• Any  Blue and Black Tape
• Large Googley Eye 
• Foil or Silver Paper and Scissors
• Water
• Hair Gel
• Long Utensil to Stir

How To Make Your Minion Sensory Bottle

1. Fill the bottle 3/4 of the way with water and gave two good firm squeezes of hair gel into the water bottle.

2. Put in your package of yellow loom bands.

3. Stir everything up to mix the gel at the bottom of the bottle.

4. Fill up with a bit more water.

5. Cap tightly and seal with hot glue if necessary. We do not.

6. Add a strip of blue tape at the bottom of the bottle for pants.

7. Add a strip of black tape to top of bottle for goggle straps

8. Cut a circle of foil or silver paper a little bit bigger than your google eye.

9. Tape or glue googley eye to circle and tape or glue both to the black tape.

Sensory bottles provide a visual treat for kids! Engage the sense of sight with a sensory bottle!

Now you have a cool Minion sensory bottle to shake up and watch!

It’s pretty cool to check out the loom bands suspended in the water and hair gel mixture!

Eventually the loom bands in your Minion sensory bottle will settle and no longer slowly move around. Some will settle to the top and some will settle to the bottom. It’s pretty neat.

Give your Minion sensory bottle a good shake and start all over again!

If you know a Minion Movie fan or a Despicable Me fan, then you will love this Minion sensory bottle!

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