The Monday Snapshot...

Since I don't really get out much during the week with both kids, I've been looking for fun activities at home to keep James amused. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I'll find a mothers group that we can join and I'll start to get a bit more confident with both kids by myself, so we can go to the park and our favourite indoor play place.

Until then fun activities for an eighteen month old can be hard to come across. James will colour and draw for a short time but also likes to eat the crayons or coloured pencils, so you have to keep a close eye on him. We are looking at getting a sandbox and cubby house for outside. But until then I came across the idea of a sensory box as outlined on the Play at home Mom blog http://www.playathomemomllc.com/2013/04/50-sensory-bin-ideas.html?m=1

I found a spare plastic box we weren't using and cleaned it out. To start we used just a bit of clean water. James loves water play at daycare and playing with containers and bottles in the bath, plus you can easily get water where soil or sand I'll have to search for. I added a couple of different sized plastic containers, one with a handle, and let James go! It did get a bit messy and when it starts to get cooler here we'll probably have to switch to sand or dirt but he loved it as you can see from the photos!

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