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Discovery Bottle Robot

Shared by Mary Catherine 13 Comments

It’s always interesting to me to find out what each class of kiddos is into. While there are certain preschool themes most kids enjoy, the topics still vary year to year. As often as possible, I integrate the kids’ interests in my preschool plans. With this year’s class, I’m already planning a variety of robot activities for the end of the year. This interactive robot discovery bottle came about as I was doing that planning.

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Make an interactive robot discovery bottle with the kids - perfect for a preschool robot theme - kids can explore sound, shapes, nuts and bolts, textures, and the alphabet

Table of Contents

  • interactive robot discovery bottle
  • using the robot discovery bottle
  • Robot-Themed Preschool Lesson Plans

interactive robot discovery bottle

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I’ve been trying out different teas recently, including this Argo tea. Since I’m a preschool teacher and tend to use all kinds of things for my classroom, I saved the bottles. They’re perfect for this robot discovery bottle, if I do say so myself!

Robot discovery bin that explore nuts, bolts, sound, and the letters of the alphabet

In talking with the preschool children, it was decided that our robot bottle needed googly eyes and funky arms made of black pipe cleaners. Out came the handy dandy glue gun! Yes, the arms do appear to be where ears should be. But the kids determined that the robot didn’t need ears anyway. Then I just drew a smiley face on the glass with a permanent marker. Based on the kids’ input, we’ll need to make a few more robot bottles that have different facial expressions!

Once the bottle itself was taken care of, it was time to add the robot’s bits and bobs inside. I decided  nuts and bolts would be a great filler for the bottle. On some of the nuts, I wrote a letter of the alphabet – both uppercase and lowercase. So inside the discover bottle, in addition to plain nuts and bolts, are bolts with letters on them.

The finishing touch was some aluminum foil around the top of the bottle. Then everything was good to go.

Robot discovery bottle for preschool kids

using the robot discovery bottle

I am positive the children will find all kinds of new ways to use this robot, here are a few possible uses for it –

  • Children can manipulate the closed and filled bottle. They’ll be able to explore the sound the nuts and bolts make this way. They’ll also be able to look out for different letters on the nuts within the bottle.
  • The kids can dump out the contents and get to exploring! Nuts and bolts can be sorted and matched, and the letters hidden within can be found and put into order.

Would your kiddos enjoy making and using this interactive robot discovery bottle? Let me know if you end up making one!

Robot-Themed Preschool Lesson Plans

If you have some robot-lovin’ preschoolers, take a look at these plans for the preschool classroom and home preschool families. Each set has a week’s worth of lesson plans, full of hands-on learning activities about robots. There’s science, literacy, math, and more planned for the week, with ideas that kids can do in various grouping sizes. The plans also come with a book list, activity explanations, and printables that correspond with the hands-on plans.

If you loved the robot writing tray check out these robot preschool lesson plans

Get yours here: Preschool Classroom | Home Preschool

For more robot activities, pop over and see what other #TeachECE writers are up to –

  • Erase a robot reading game from The Educators’ Spin On It
  • Robot beginning sounds activity from Growing Book by Book
  • Robot alphabet puzzle from Learning 2 Walk
  • Robot alphabet card games and activities from Mom Inspired Life
  • Dollar Store DIY Robot Toys from Capri + 3
Robot Discovery Bottle - perfect for a preschool or kindergarten robot theme - lets kids explore sound, texture, shapes, sorting and matching, and the alphabet

Filed Under: Early Learning Tagged With: #TeachECE, Alphabet, Robots

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  1. Amanda says

    March 23, 2016 at 8:23 am

    What a fun way to use your recyclables!

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  2. THERESA says

    March 23, 2016 at 9:58 am

    That is a super cute robot and looks like so much fun. Our kids would love it!

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  3. Danielle Buckley says

    March 23, 2016 at 4:32 pm

    This is AWESOME!! Love it!

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  4. Jodie says

    March 23, 2016 at 5:29 pm

    This is awesome and it would make a great little reading buddy too.

    Reply
  5. Clarissa @Munchkins and Moms says

    March 23, 2016 at 8:26 pm

    Such acute discovery bottle! I bet it’s nice and heavy, which is perfrect for my sensory seeking son! He prefers exploring objects with weight to them.

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    • Mary Catherine says

      July 23, 2016 at 5:59 pm

      Thanks so much, Clarissa!

      Reply
  6. Jukie says

    March 26, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    I am so totally doing this for my preschooler. He will love it.

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    • Mary Catherine says

      July 23, 2016 at 5:58 pm

      Glad to hear it! 🙂

      Reply
  7. Aimee says

    April 2, 2016 at 5:40 am

    What an easy to make project. Plus I really like the idea of making robots with different facial expressions.

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    • Mary Catherine says

      April 4, 2016 at 6:35 pm

      Yes, the kiddos really want to make some with different expressions. I can’t wait to see what they come up with!

      Reply
  8. Caren says

    May 1, 2016 at 9:44 pm

    Robots are awesome!! This is going to work great for my students

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  9. Rachel says

    October 24, 2016 at 8:30 am

    What did you use to write on the nuts? I’ve tried something similar but could not get any pen to not smear on the metal.

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    • Mary Catherine says

      October 24, 2016 at 4:30 pm

      I just used a plain old black Sharpie permanent marker. I didn’t run into any issues with smearing, so perhaps try that!

      Reply
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