Dyeing Eggs with Toddlers

How do you safely dye eggs with toddlers?

I've done this method before when there was a parent for each child

so how do you I make it safe for my three?

 The main change was to replace shaving cream with cool whip.

And I diluted the food colouring so their hands wouldn't be totally dyed.

 For the twins this was all about discovery.

 The texture and the taste

and trying to make the egg move.

 Of course putting them in the same chairs that they eat, with their bibs on may have sent a message that it was time to eat.  I couldn't think of any other way to do this without having it all over the house.  And unfortunately it was a rainy day so we couldn't do it outside.

 Here are the eggs before the cool whip was washed off.

The colour isn't as bright since the food colouring had been diluted with water.  But it doesn't matter as the process was so much fun.

More Plastic Egg Play

Today I brought out the plastic eggs again

because the twins parents had these flat cardboard boxes that are perfect as ramps.

Love watching their excitement and

 figuring out what happens when she let's go of the egg.

 Doesn't matter how high up they let go of the egg it will still roll down.

Our crawler found another way to play with the eggs.

Oh how they love to dump!

What's in the Tub Tuesday?

Plastic eggs.

Some match but most don't.

They are eggs that I have accumulated over the years.

The large plastic spoons we used before.

 Introducing Jelly Bean Stew song to the twins and reinforcing it for the Older one.

Love these big egg cartons. 

I thought we would use them for walking on but they worked great to practice transferring skills.

 She walks so much more confidently in just one month than the last time we used the spoons.

I added baskets for them to fill and carry.

Jelly Bean Stew

 Jelly beans, one of my favourite candies, was a focus this past week.

I brought a pot full of plastic shaped jelly beans for the little one to play with.

Mmmm making stew for two.

Practicing our colours as we sing.

At the end of the week we tasted real jelly beans.

What's in the Tub Tuesday?

Blue sand, wooden monkeys and spoons.

Oh how lovely the sand feels.

The twins are learning to feed themselves with spoons so I thought this would be a good opportunity to practice.

I didn't think they would try to feed each other.

Lots of practice pinching the sand, lift it and put it in her cup.

Train Play

Trains for Opa and trains for the little ones.

Here is what Opa made.

Since we travel every week over to the mainland to care for the little ones, Opa decided to make a portable train layout to take with him.

This is his new N scale layout.
It fits the size of a kitchen table.

The lid of his model holds a wooden train set for the little ones.

It's perfect to lay on the floor.

There's lots of room for one child to play within the model.

Or for more than one.

The track is attached to the lid but the rest we add each time it is open.

Sometimes the little ones join Opa and watch his trains go around.

Sometimes Opa joins them on the floor to play with their wooden trains.

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.