...or maybe this is a lot of rice, when you compare it to say what we would eat for dinner. However, this Sunday I decided to transform the kids old water table that isn't often used into a rice table. We buy rice in bulk, so I swiped some from our 20 quart containers, (my frugal MIL may not agree...sorry Gloria!) and made a smaller rice container in a tuppaware for Forrest, with the intent of practicing name recognition with him. I quickly realized after rice was surprisingly appearing on the floor, (couldn't see that coming!) that a bigger container was needed and wola, the rice table happened!
Both boys love it and this way both can play at the same time. Ever so often we take a break from playing and dig through the rice in search of names. He can recognize about 1/2, we're working on the others, (Granny and Grandma are the hardest of the bunch...)chocolate chips make great motivation!
I'm not sure how long it'll last, but he's still playing around in it at the moment...already worth the 10 or so cups of rice we sacrificed I'd say :-)
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| Trying the too small rice container.... |
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| the dinosaurs were eating the trees and 'mcqueen' was saving the tree.... |
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| Talin making his special rice juice...;-) |
2 comments:
I am totally stealing this idea! LOVE it! We have a water table that we con't use all that much and I think it might just have some new appeal if I add some rice!
texturally I think it is very calming for the boys. Or at least Forrest. And maybe Mom...hehe!
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