Water Beads

I have been seeing a lot of posts on pinterest with sensory bottles, trays and other fun things for toddlers.  I ran across one with something called water beads and they looked like a lot of fun.  I should put a disclaimer here, I’m pretty sure there are water beads made especially for toddlers, but I used the beads from the floral section at Wal-mart. Yes they are a choking hazard, but I told Lilly not to put them in her mouth and sat with her while she was playing with them. 

 

Lilly playing with the beads about an hour after we put them in the water

Little hands

There are 4 beads in this little green bowl, I kept them separate to remind Lilly how little they were when we started.

It looks like pink water in the bowl until you put your hand in and find beads

 

The next day, Lilly was comparing the size of the beads compared to the day before

Look at how big they are!

I didn’t take any water out of the bowl, those beads absorbed all of it (about 2 quarts).

 

This was a very fun experiment, Lilly thought it was really neat to see how big they grew in a day.  I even caught myself playing with the beads a little while Lilly was at school :)