Showing posts with label water table. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water table. Show all posts

Friday, August 9, 2013

Shredded Paper...what was I thinking?

I had a HUGE garbage bag full of shredded paper that I needed to put in the recycling bin. I thought "hey, why not play with it first? It would be great fun!" Yes, it was fun, but I learned my lesson...this is NOT an outdoor activity! Especially on a slightly windy day. Oh well, the kids had fun, that's what matters right? I poured it out in my big water/sand table and gathered different scoops and let the kids loose.

I told Lil Lady to smell it and see what it smelt like. She said it was stinky-lol!

As you can see, my driveway quickly became COVERED in tiny shreds of paper. Ugh.

Lil Lady had fun making pie and cake out of paper...here she is offering me a slice.
 

Lil Man loved taking her pie and cake and stressing her out, as usual. He thinks it's his hourly job to torture her because she makes it so easy!

The magnifying glass was lots of fun to check out the paper with. 

Getting a closer look with the magnifying glass is very important!

How big of a pile can you hold at once? 


It is lots of fun to sort and move paper shreds to fun new containers. She was making me dinner here I believe...
 
 

Overall the kids loved it, I didn't. If I do it again it will be indoor, on a tarp or something that I can easily clean up and take care any leftover runaway papers with a vacuum. It took me forever to clean up my driveway after this one! 
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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Cotton Days

Our next door neighbors have a giant cotton tree which blows pretty much all of its cotton into our yard. It's awful. It literally looks like it is snowing that week of the year when the cotton starts flying. Everything in our backyard gets covered in the annoying stuff. Since our backyard was snowing in cotton we played in the front yard for sensory play this day. I also decided to have some fun with our own cotton. I grabbed a handful of cotton balls and filled a water table up in the driveway. I then threw in some cups, scoops, and funnels. I let the kids hold some cotton balls dry and then see what happened as they got them wet. They both had lots of fun with it. Lil Lady loved putting cotton in the funnel and clogging it so water couldn't get out and Lil Man loved shredding the wet cotton.


Look mom! There's cotton in the funnel!

Watching the cotton sink to the bottom

Squish squish squish!

Lil Lady learned that if you don't put enough cotton in the funnel, water can still come out

And now the water is clogged!
 
 
 
Who knew wet cotton on a cotton flying day could be so fun!?