Glitter Bottles

I found this idea on Pinterest about a year ago.  I promptly pinned on the board "To Do List".  And there it has sat until now.  

Glitter bottles.  Simple.  Easy.  What I really loved is the idea behind them.  They can be used as a time out tool.  A reset button.  A take a breather kind of thing.  

Sometimes my kids just need a break.  There are days when it seems like everyone/everything is unraveling.  They don't listen.  They can't seem to stay out of trouble.  Therefore, they spend a lot of time in time out...noses against the wall...that kind of thing.  Now these bottles aren't for the actual "time out - you did something wrong" moments.  But they are for the moments that have the potential to lead up to the time outs.  For those times when I can feel the tension, or when they are fighting about every little thing, or when there just gets to be too much chaos in the house.  

I am hoping that it will give them a moment to reset.  They can play with the bottle and swirl the glitter around and hopefully benefit from it's calming effects.

We'll see.

That's what the 3 younger kidlets are getting for Valentine's Day tomorrow.

Update: 

3/2/13

The kids love these.  Especially Trent.  He will sometimes steal the other kids bottles and line them up and shake all three, over and over again.  He took his bottle in the car on a trip to Boise and watched it for the whole 45 min trip.  I consider that a great success.  

Oh - and the kids have come up with a better name: Storm Bottles.  They cause a storm and watch it settle.  Cool name :)

The picture isn't the best quality - but it shows Hannah using Luke's storm bottle to keep entertained as she finishes her breathing treatment.