What's in the Tub Tuesday?

We continued, this week, using the pasta and tubes.

 The tubes were stuck in a box at different angles.

 This week they knew what to do without any prompts.

Some of the pasta was still in the cans so I added them to the play.

She figured out how to turn the can over and shake the pasta out.

 As the play progressed they moved the box away from the tub and became more interested in the tubes.

They noticed that the tubes could slide in and out.

Each took a turn figuring out how to pull a tube out and the banging began.

Treasure Basket - Sensory Tubes

 This month's treasure basket is full of test tubes.

I found these wonderful test tubes at our local parent/educator store called Planet Kids.

I've had them for almost a year before deciding that they work perfect for this idea.

Each tube is filled with items I had around the house.

Items that may or may not make noise when the tube is shaken.

As she took her tube out of the basket, for the first time, she tried to unscrew the lid.

That is one of her favourite activities.  She is fascinated with taking lids off and putting them back on.

I knew that so I made sure these were screwed on really tight.

Also items that I believe she would be interested in, like these tiny babies.

They were left over from her mom's baby shower.

As she played with the tubes she began to look at them longer and noticing more about the items inside, like the babies with bottles.

Or the colour of the buttons in the tube with pipe cleaners.

Or pompoms of different shades of blue.

Bells from my Christmas decorations. I filled the tube too full and had to remove some so they would make a nice jingle sound.

Plastic straws make a very slight sound.

There is a tube with rice and foil and another with purple sand.

And the last tube has coloured bow tie pasta.

With these tubes we worked on the concept of loud vs quiet, upside down and turn over, identifying objects and sounds, body movements, and putting things in and out of the basket.

March Treasure Basket - Balls

In January I made a card board box house for my grand daughter 

but she never was comfortable going into it.

I tried poking lights in the top but that didn't interest her

so I thought balls might do the trick.

I spent the past month searching for a variety of balls,

some from my own bins and others from dollar stores.

We set the box on it's side and cut holes for these two big tubes

to fit through.

Then I showed her the balls.

She took each from the basket and showed me her favourites.

Then I took one of the balls and rolled it through the tube.

She copied me.

A couple of balls have lights inside them.

She figured out how to activate them.

I thought they might motivate her to go farther in to the box.

As you see in the video she is stretching into it but I wouldn't say she is

comfortable.

Do you have any suggestions on how to encourage her to go in the box?