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@rawrasaur: I'm so glad you revived this idea! I'll try this out for sure. I can volunteer for next week, if you like?

@mediagirl: I saw one where there were googly eyes in it.

@rawrasaur: you're clearly more popular than me glad you're reviving!

We did something like this with rice/food dye/oil when he was 13 months. He was amused! I kept them in the pantry and he seems to like them more now that he points a lot, and can drag his finger along them

We had some time to kill before lunch and all of the supplies on hand when I saw this post so we did it today! I made some sensory bags like this when he was about 6 months but u thought it would be fun to see how he'd react now.

LO's age: Almost 16 months
The Good: He helped me make the bags and he got really excited about them as I assembled them. He loved trying to identify the different colors (I made a blue one and a red one). I added some decorative stones that I had on hand into them and he liked being able to feel them through the gel. He kept telling me "Brrrrr" because the gel was cold. He also went back and played with them later on his own. He even pulled one off of the window and brought it into the kitchen (where I was) because he wanted to stick it on the fridge.

The Bad: Its my fault because I added the pebbles but they were distracting and he really wanted them out of the bags. We ended up just sorting pebbles into buckets after a few minutes haha.

The Ugly: His tantrum when he couldn't get the bag open (I taped them) woke up his sister lol.

@rawrasaur: Oh I didn't even think of that! I'll have to show him when he wakes up from his nap

Thanks for starting this up again btw! I was just thinking about it the other day and planning on reviving it myself- I just never got around to it. I'll volunteer for a month too!

What a cute idea! I don't think I ever saw the past threads on this. I'll have to go to the dollar store and get some hair gel tomorrow and try it out.

We tried this yesterday evening after I picked up LO from daycare. I saw the post and we had about 30 minutes to burn, so I figured we'd give it a shot!

LO's age: 15 months
The Good: She sat on the counter while I filled the bags and was so excited. I taped them to the glass door and she immediately starting poking/squeezing the baggie. She actually loved the tape more than the bag, and kept trying to unwind the tape roll. So I started taping small pieces of tape around the bag and she had fun peeling those off the window and taping them to the baggie

The Bad: Well, I didn't exactly have all the ingredients. No hair gel, so I just used water. I put in the coloring drops and added some glitter inside. It still worked well, but wasn't squishy so all we could do was splash the water around. I need to get some hair gel for next time.

The Ugly: DH came home from work and saw us playing with the baggie. He said "why is she playing with her pee in a bag taped to the window?". LOL! I didn't even think about it, but I used yellow food coloring and apparently it looked like pee when he first saw it. Oh well - she enjoyed it!

Thanks for the fun idea, looking forward to upcoming activities and I'd be happy to volunteer too!

LO's Age: 11.5 months
The Good: Sadie's very hands-on & curious... she loves to touch, feel, investigate everything, so this was right up her alley. We used gel food coloring + hair gel, and the effect was really neat!
The Bad: She only played with it for a few minutes. I expected this since she's got a short attention span. If it was on a window instead of our storm door, I'd leave it up so that she could come/go & play with it through out the day.
The Ugly: I used painters tape, so it kept falling off when she pulled on it!

I don't know what this says about me, but I really enjoyed playing with it! The colors were pretty!

I wish I had goggly eyes! I picked up some cheapy gel at the store yesterday, so I'll try this out this afternoon and will report back! Thanks for getting it going again!

@Silva: I thought about doing shaving cream! Will try that next.

LO's Age: 12.5 months
The Good: had everything on hand, easy to put together. She liked playing with it and smiled when I wrote letters in the goop.
The Bad: we don't have a window for her to stand at so she had to stand on our couch. This distracted her from the actual bag as she wanted to run on the couch. I didn't have aloe or gel so I used other colored creams but they were too heavy and kept settling to the bottom of the bag. She tried to take the bag off the window so I would do all 4 sides next time.
The Ugly: none, I would try this again!