Our Pets Week - A Fish Bowl Sensory Bag

I love this sensory activity - all of the fun, without any of the mess!

I saw these great sensory bags over at Teach Preschool, and knew they would be a big hit with Ava. All you need to do is put about 1/2 cup of hair gel (we got ours at the dollar store) into a Ziploc bag, add some food coloring, and squish it around until it's all blended.

We added fish to ours to tie it in with our pets week - I just cut a few fish out of construction paper and laminated them (like I did here) so they would hold up in the gel.

We hung ours up in the window, and everyone in the house has been over there playing with it. The fish have a tendency to get clumped together, so it's become a little game to get them separated from each other - which just makes it a great small motor activity too - bonus!