I know I've seen some ideas for using these for creative projects with kids... But now that I actually have an empty one I can't remember any of them! I'm talking about like empty ketchup, salad dressing bottles, etc, with a small hole.

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We used a dish liquid bottle as the base for a doll made out of recycled materials for DD's science fair this year. It was very cool!

that's a great idea!

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These are best with trigger sprayers:

We used them to play freeze tag in the summer. You essentially have to be close enough to touch so it's more similar to the original version instead of just turning into a squirt gun fight. We would also use them to play capture the flag, cops and robbers, etc etc. In those instances we'd fill them with food coloring and water so we could make teams. Blue team and red team for example. If you were blue, we got ya haha. It also eliminated the "you really didn't touch me" fights lol

"Splatter" painting. Give kids very watered down paints (if it's thick it will clog the sprayer) or food coloring and water in a spray bottle and let them have at it. Where they're in bottles they also don't mix paint colors and end up with 5 trays of brown haha. Great for outside, spread down a large piece of paper, different pieces of construction paper, paper plates, etc etc. Some of the spray bottles have "spray", "stream" so you can get different effects

For just empty plastic bottles:

Glow stick insects: We'd have little kids make these when we went camping or for late bbq nights. We'd decorate them with pipe cleaners, felt, construction paper, etc. To make legs, wings, antennas or what not and then when it was dark drop one of the little mini glow sticks into them. The bottle doesn't have to be clear as long as it's see through. The colored bottles (like green ginger ale bottles) always seemed to be more popular though.

sand Bottles Layers of colored sand, simple and classic. And if you do it outside no clean up lol. You can also put a little bit of sand on wax paper and roll chalk across it until it's that color instead of buying colored sand. I wonder if food coloring would work (or vinegar and food coloring) once it's dry and no longer colored mud.

Bottle shakers basically homemade morroccas. Fill with rice, beans, etc and decorate.

I SPY Bottles Need a see through bottle. Fill with rice and miscellaneous tiny objects (keep track of what you put in) and then decorate and cover with paper, duct tape, etc etc until you have just a window left. And then try to spy different objects.

Wave maker Again, clear or see through bottle. Fill halfway with tap water and a few drops of food coloring. Glitter etc can also be added. Fill the rest of the way with clear vegetable oil. Put some glue around the threads and screw on the cap. Rock sideways to make waves.

One's that aren't see through are great for bowling if you fill them with sand

This sounds like fun! Did the food coloring spray come out in the wash?

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Yep, no issues at all. I gave ds one filled with (very) blue water the other day and sent him outside to attack dh, just did that wash yesterday and it was all fine and they came in soaked.