Sensory swim

 

We made the treasure-bottle. It held Spud's attention for about ten minutes. So I expanded it with all the left-over  beans, mung beans (like seriously, what was I going to do with 3 kg of dry mung beans?), spaghetti, lentils, cous-cous, rice etc that was cluttering up my dry-store cupboard and made him a sensory box. That was better and he would play in it for about 40 minutes, different sessions saw diggers, farm animals, funnels etc. We also used the beans for weighing and measuring activities, and as a landscape for 'friends' that refused to stand up unaided

All was good but I could see that there was a logical next step...

 Yes Spuddy wanted to 'swim' in the beans. Of course. So I created a floodwall out of towels, in the corner of my kitchen where the mix didn't have many places to go.

 There was digging...

 And sorting...

 And mixing...

And general mess. They slipped over quite a few times. They had beans in places I care not to mention. It lasted an afternoon and was splendid. In retrospect I should have done it in the bath....Next time.