{"id":1160,"date":"2020-08-20T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/msalishacarlson.com\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2020-11-06T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T22:10:40","slug":"i-spy-jars-how-to-make-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msalishacarlson.com\/i-spy-jars-how-to-make-them\/","title":{"rendered":"I SPY Jars: How to Make Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

An I SPY jar is a great car toy and quiet time attention-focusing activity. But making your own I SPY jars provides another element of fun and it\u2019s great family togetherness time. And while your children are happily scooping and pouring rice, they\u2019re also working on their motor skills and hand-eye coordination which helps them with things like their scissor cutting skills<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0handwriting skills<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have most of the supplies needed to make the I SPY jars at home. We made 6 I SPY jars when we made them\u2026 two for each boy so they could keep one in the house and one in the van. Making that many required A LOT of rice. So I purchased a bulk bag of rice at the grocery. My littlest guy thought the bag was great to play with. He poked it and squished it in the cart. Until\u2026 I realized that he had poked a hole in it and saw that we had made a rice trail through the store! So not all the rice made it home with us, but it was still a good choice to buy bulk (and it left us some for a couple dinners too).<\/p>\n

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If I were to make another round of I SPY jars, I would not make all the jars the same. Why I didn\u2019t consider this at the time, who knows. Instead, I would have made them different so that the boys could trade jars and have different things to search for in each one. Honestly, you can buy I SPY jars already made (they\u2019re actually named\u00a0Find It<\/a>\u00a0jars on Amazon). And they have a variety of themes (Sesame Street, At the Beach, Glitz and Glamour), but it is more fun to make them yourself if you want to be budget friendly and have a fun craft\/activity for the kids to do.<\/p>\n

A couple things I\u2019ve learned since making these\u2026<\/p>\n

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  1. When we made these I SPY jars 7 years ago, Crystal Light containers were more transparent than the latest containers I stripped of it\u2019s plastic wrap. So you may want to consider using a glass jar instead. (Something like an olive jar would be perfect!) <\/em>The process is still the same until the gluing the lid on step, but I\u2019ll cover that in the instructions below.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Your kids may enjoy having a list of everything in the jar. The Find It jars<\/a> include a printable of everything to look for inside the jar. But you can quickly type up and print out your own list\u2026 or have your kids write the list!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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