Being a stay at home mom is a lot of fun for me. I am always trying out new activities to keep me stimulated creatively and as a side point to keep my kids entertained. Don't you know... I only buy my kids toys I would want to play with! Today's activity was colored salt. Really I would have liked it to be sand, but I used what I had on hand.
I started by dividing the salt into 3 bowls. I added a few drops of food coloring to each bowl. then mixed to get the color spread throughout.
After I got all three colors - I chose red, yellow, and blue - I spread out a sheet, dumped out the sand toys, and let them at it. My 15 month old had a lot of fun with the shovels and dragging his fingers through it. My 3 year old had more fun scooping it up and letting it trickle off his shovel. They were very serious during this activity. I think the weird factor of playing with a sand like substance in the house threw them off. Either that or they had their thinking caps on.
After about 40 min the salt was all over the place but I brought out our handy dandy vacuum cleaner and that tidied things up real quick.
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