I Spy With My Little Eye...

I found these little soda bottles that were the perfect size to fill for little look and find toys for my kids.

I gathered all different kinds of beads, including some in animal shapes and anything else small I could find.  I typed up a list of what was going to be in each one in case the kids wanted to cross things off the list as they found them, then I dumped everything inside and filled it with rice*.  I glued the caps on with a hot glue gun so I wouldn't find a rice disaster all over my house later.

In case anyone is interested in what types of things I collected for these I Spy bottles, here's a sample of my list:

green star

small, med. & large leaves

green button

6 different colored turtle beads

ABC

XYZ

Numbers 1-9

penny, nickel, dime

green teddy bear bead

purple lion bead

small green doughnut

florescent yellow flower, k, y

pink heart, crescent, star, triangle

green diamond

“fun”

orange fuzzy

orange, purple beads

small, green ribbon

white flower

straw

lady bug

2 small screws (gold, red)

safety pin

butterfly and fish stickers

pink, purple balloons

*Hint: I knew that rice absorbs water and I wondered if that would cause any problems after the bottle was sealed.  It has created kind of a vacuum, indenting the sides in places, so I would use something different if I were to do this craft over again.