Frozen Water Beads

Sensory Play with Frozen Water Beads

It's summer, and we are all about the ice and water play!  We love playing with water beads, and I thought it would be fun to experiment with water beads and find out what happens when you freeze them.  Frozen water beads turned out to be a whole new sensory experience.  All of my boys were a fan, but my toddler twins were particularly attracted to the cold and bumpy texture of the frozen water beads.

How to Make Frozen Water Beads

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Supplies:

• water beads
• a container full of water

Directions:  To freeze the water beads, first I left them soaking in a bin of water to hydrate.  Water beads start off tiny and grow as they absorb water.  Once they were fully hydrated I stuck the entire container in the freezer and left it overnight.

We played with our bin of frozen water beads on a particularly hot day.  Once the water beads melted, we were left with a bin full of squishy, broken water beads, creating an entirely new sensory activity.  J-Bug (3) joined us at this point, and he couldn't keep his hands out of the bin.

He loved the way the water bead goo squeezed between his fingers and oozed out of his hands.

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More frozen sensory ideas:

Frozen Water Beads in Balloons ~ Colored Ice Sensory Play ~ Watercolor Ice Art