What's in the Tub Tuesday?

To the sticky paper on the wall I placed the sensory tub in front of it and put small pieces of colour tissue paper in it.

They took the pieces of tissue paper and stuck it on the sticky wall.

They also discovered that the tissue makes a beautiful waterfall to the floor.

Another discovery was that the tissue easily stuck to the bottom of their feet when they walked on it.

That turned into part of the fun.  

Peeling it off the feet and sticking it to the wall.

All 3 of them enjoyed this idea of things sticking to the wall.

 I noticed that the table was getting in their way so I removed it and placed the tub on the floor.

Oh their curiosity!

They needed to check out the tub.

And soon started dumping it.

Their next step was to grab the paper and put it back in the tub just so they could dump it again.

The sticky wall will stay for a few weeks.

Next week I will add something new.

Visit again to see what it is.

Starting a New Tub But We Got Distracted

 This week I started to set up our sensory tub.

First I put sticky paper (contact paper) on the wall with the sticky side out.

As I was busy taping the contact to the wall, the paper that was peeled off was left on the floor.

The children started walking and playing on it.

It made a wonderful sticky sound as they walked across it.

Soon the older one was tearing the paper apart.

 Which we scooped up and put in a box.

We pretended it was food to stir.

Later that day, after a nap, they started playing with the paper again.

I crumpled some of it into balls.

 They started picking them up and throwing them around.

What a fun game!

Their imagination didn't stop there.

This little one started to play, it looked like to me, hockey.

Homemade Wrapping Paper

Make wrapping paper.

Here is a very easy and fun activity to keep your little one busy on a rainy day.

I covered the kitchen table with a plastic table cloth, rolled out paper

and then painted her hands to make prints.

She liked it.

Some children may not like the feel of paint on their hands though so you may want to skip it and go on to just giving them a paint brush.

She really enjoyed the independence of painting with the brush.

The main problem was that she couldn't reach very far across the paper.

So I had to turn it for her.

The fridge makes a perfect drying rack.

Oh another idea is to use cookie cutters that they stamp in the paint and then on to the paper.

Have fun.