Inspired by an amazing blog that brings sensory play into bath time (http://www.growingajeweledrose.com) . While it snowed outside we did sea sensory play inside. I am not brave enough to fill my whole tub up but, the kids thoroughly enjoyed it!!! And neither the noodles or the water stained either of them. They needed some prompting to even touch the pasta (or I mean seaweed) but, once they did they loved and couldn’t get enough!!! So fun!!!
So I pretty much followed the directions as outlined on the above blog. I made and colored pasta with food coloring. I did that task in Ziploc bags – I was really hesitant on this once because I was confident the color would transfer to skin --- but it didn’t!! Filled our sensory play bin with water colored with both blue and green food coloring (nothing stains) and then let them have fun with the pasta and our bath toy animals.
Lesson for next time: Pick up some heavier sea animals so I can hide them in the sea weed and talk through floating and sinking. This was the plan I just ran out of time this weekend to go hunting. We did talk through the different animals, the sounds they make, etc. as we played.
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