I
remembered an activity that my sister-in-law had her oldest do one
visit when I was pregnant with Ez. Although they had a whole bucket
full of beans, I've always wanted to reproduce it on a smaller scale.
In
this house, we call T's tummy time "Blanket Time" so E knows that
he's suppose to give him space. In lieu of that, I told E he was
going to have his own blanket time. He was all over that like white on
rice. I grabbed a bag of pintos and some additional fun 'toys' and let
him have at it. The only rules: keep the beans on the blanket and these
beans were not for eating.
He did all kinds of scooping, spooning, pouring, stirring, grabbing, etc.
Such
an easy indoor activity. The hardest part is the clean up..which wasn't
much at all. 95% of the beans stayed on the blanket and E likes to help
clean up.
He started gearing up for a tantrum
was really bummed when it was time to put everything away, but we put
the beans into a zip-lock baggie for next 'blanket time'...which will
most likely be happening soon with this week's rain!
2 comments:
Cool! He didn't try to eat any or put them in his ears or up his nose? That's always the issue I had with my kids, which made playing with beans no fun :(
No, he did great! I had to remind him a few times at the start that these weren't food then he was good to go. I've been wanting to do this for awhile but held off since I knew he'd try eating them. He seems to be at the perfect age to understand and just play with them.
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