Camelbak 0.4-Liter Kids Bottle

Sunday, January 1st, 2012 at 11:35 am

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Homemade Bubbles

Mix this up the day before you want to go out and blow bubbles. These bubbles are so good you won’t mind the wait.

What you need:

Empty half gallon milk container, Water, A measuring cup, Liquid dish detergent, Measuring spoons, Glycerin or corn syrup, Shallow bowl or disposable pie pan, Scissors and Bubble blower.

What you need to do:

Rinse out the milk container and fill it with water, then pour out 1/3 of a cup of water. Add 1/3 cup of liquid dish detergent and 2 tablespoons of Glycerin or Corn Syrup to the milk container. Close the container and turn it over a couple of times SLOWLY to mix it up. Don’t shake it! Let it sit for 24 hours. Then pour a lot of of the mixture into a shoal bowl or disposable pie pan. Dip the bubble blower into the solution and blow. You’ll make nice thick bubbles that float for longer than the store purchased kind.

Try making your own bubble blower:

Chenille sticks (pipe cleaners) without apparent effort bend and twist into a hoop. Make heart shapes, moon shapes, experiment and find out what works and what doesn’t. Be resourceful and recycle objects. Cut a circle out of the container of a margarine lid, glue a stick to it for a handle and see how that Try the plastic ring from a canned soda six-pack.

Take it to the Next Level

These bubbles are so strong you may make them bounce. Yup, bounce.

What you need:

White cotton gloves available at most art or craft stores, 4 straws and a piece of sting (about 4 feet long). Thread the straws with the string end to end, and tie a knot where the stings meet, creating a square. Dip that square into the bubble solution and gently lift out. Hold it up and have a collaborator blow bubbles toward the trampoline and watch them bounce. Then try putting on the white cotton glove and let the bubble bounce off of your gloved hand. It may take a little exercise like the trampoline, but it works!

Magic Railroad

Little kids seem to be fascinated by trains, as evidenced by the popularity of such characters as Thomas the Tank Engine.

What you need:

Sidewalk chalk and a side walk.

What to do:

Bring your bucket of chalk outside and get everyone involved making a railroad. Map out a railroad finish with stations, water towers, cities, villages, what ever your imagination wants to visit on this railroad. Add lakes, crossings, bridges, tunnels. Draw trees and flowers along side, roads for autos to cross.. Then when you’re finished, get everyone on board and ride the Magic Railroad. Let them get off at their stations and let them play.

Paper Mural Kids

What you need:

Roll of big paper (48inches high by 50 feet wide) Try Fadeless Paper Rolls available at Michaels and any online craft shop for in regards to $16, Crayons and or Markers (broad tips work best), masking tape

What to do:

Take the kids out to the park or to the backyard, with the roll of paper and the wide tip markers and crayons. Tape it up versus the building or lay it out on the hard ground. Have everyone pose in a very dramatic way versus the paper. The kids working with partners, take turns tracing each other. Then everyone fills in the details of their own faces, clothing, shoes, etc. The rough gritty cement of the building or ground produces most interesting textures. They may turn it into a mural by adding images, words and whatsoever their imaginations come up with.

Note:

The papers come in white and colors and even prints like clouds and landscapes. Make sure you choose a lighter background that will effortlessly be covered by markers or crayons.

Soda Fountains

Want something more explosive and messy?

Try this in your backyard.

What you need:

A 2 liter bottle of soda (not diet), Funnel, Tablespoon, and Salt.

What to do:

Open the soda bottle, insert the funnel. Drop in the tablespoon of salt, remove the funnel and get back! The soda bubbles over and makes a huge mess!

Take it to the Next Level

This gets genuinely messy but it’s so much fun you may want to double your furnishes so you have sufficient on hand for a second go around.

What you need:

Outdoor space that is okay to get messy. Unopened 2 liter bottle of soda (not diet), a plastic straw and a package of Wintergreen Lifesavers.

What to do:

Open the soda bottle, and set it in a clear spot on the ground. Open the Lifesavers and push the straw through the centers. Get all of them on the straw. Carefully now, place one end of the straw in the bottle opening and all at once, pour all the mints in. Get back! The contents of the bottle will shoot assorted feet in to the air.

So there you have a few ideas to undertake with your own children this summer. Get out there with them and be a fun parent. Get messy, have fun!

Most helpful customer reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
CamelBak kid bottle – an amazing solution
By Gadget Mom
After trying so many bottles, some of which promised to be “dripless” but failed, we heard of the Camelbak and we LOVE IT.
It’s so easy to assemble, easy to clean (dishwasher safe!!!)and no matter hwo many times our kids would drop it and twist it it’s still spill-free and not a drop of liquid is to be found outside teh bottle. We’ve even discovered, by chance, that if you forget to insert the plastic straw after washing it, the bottle is still usable by simply tilting it up and drinking (like regular bottle), as long as you place the mouth-piece on top.
We recomend it to anyone!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
love it
By M. Perez
I purchased this for my 9 month old son since he always tries to “steal” my grown-up size CamelBak bottle. I’m very surprised that he knows how to drink from it at his age, but he does! Much better than any sippy cup we’ve purchased. The only thing I have an issue with is cleaning the straw and the bite valve. It is top-rack dishwasher safe, however it seems to collect food and such during the cycle. I only put water in it, so I’ve just been soaking it in bleach & water to clean it. CamelBak makes a cleaning system for their other products so I’m hoping it will work on this as well.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful.
Fantastic water bottle
By E. Thompson
I have the larger camelbak bottles but for my daughter going to kindergarten I thought a smaller one would be easier to lug around. The only problem we have is that this one has a button to push at the front to get the bite valve to pop up and its too hard for her to use, I just switched out the top from another bottle and its fine.

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