Bangles

Shopping at a thrift store I found a bag of metal bracelets.

They work great in an old wipe container.

 So much fun to grab them and drop them on the floor.

They make a sound when they are dropped.

I tried to spin them too.

 Then I showed them how to put them on their arms.

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.

Happy Easter

Hope you have a hoppy time.

Jello Eggs

Going through my Easter bins I found these old egg shaped jello molds.

I forgot that the recipe needed to be modified,

I added too much water.

This is the twins first experience with jello so they were a little apprehensive.

 Using one finger to poke at it, discovering the texture and movement.

 Quickly starting to grab it in their hand and watch it slide off.

Unfortunately, and I predicted it, they started shaking their hand to get the jello off.

Soon I was busy cleaning it off the floor and walls.

 A quick switch and I put them in the bath tub taking any restrictions away.

 A bonus was the tub toys that were waiting.

Scooping, pouring, grabbing, spreading and flicking was no problem in the tub.

When they were done it was easy to clean up and then give them a bath.

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.