* "All About Me" Personalized Eye Spy Rice Bottle

The girls and I love to make our own 

Eye Spy Bottles.

So, as one of our 

Smart Summer Challenge Week One:

Me on the Map activities,

we decided to make personalized 

All About Me Eye Spy rice bottles.

"C" loves pink and all things girly. 

So we made a little batch of 

pink and purple rice for her bottle. 

To make the colored rice, 

we mixed white rice with 

liquid food coloring and a few pumps 

of alcohol-based hand sanitizer 

in some zip-lock bags. 

To get nice strong colors, we used 

A LOT of food coloring!

We let it dry on a paper towel lined dish. 

We collected things that represent her personality....

lots of little kitty buttons and toys, 

tiny pink flowers, 

pink glittery beads and pink jewels,

a couple of tiny pink butterflies,

and her name in pink and purple letter beads

strung on a piece of pink cord. 

After everything's in the bottle,

add a dab of glue to the lid and twist on. 

I wish we had tiny photos of the girls to put inside

or mini shrinky-dink "portraits" of them!

How fun would that be?!

"E" went with a blue and green theme.

She had frogs, snails, 

turquoise and lime green buttons,

cool beads, and bug buttons in hers

since she's my nature girl. 

This post is part of the Smart Summer Challenge.

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and

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to explore Me on the Map with your own kids!

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 for our weekly Smart Summer Linky,

share YOUR own Smart Summer Challenge ideas and posts

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Fondly,

Pink and Green Mama