{"id":826,"date":"2013-04-11T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/11\/sensory-play-aka-things-i-picked-up-on-pinterest"},"modified":"2013-04-11T03:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T03:04:00","slug":"sensory-play-aka-things-i-picked-up-on-pinterest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2013\/04\/11\/sensory-play-aka-things-i-picked-up-on-pinterest\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensory play, AKA, things I picked up on Pinterest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m digging all the &#8220;sensory play&#8221; ideas on Pinterest, and Jack loves them too.<\/p>\n<p>This is a pan of old lentils, rice, and beans.\u00a0 He drives his trucks in them, practicing digging and loading his dump trucks.\u00a0 I hid some pretend coins in there, so he can dig for buried treasure over and over.\u00a0 We also shake the pan flat and practice writing letters and shapes with our fingers.\u00a0 Easy clean up with a vacuum or broom.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/8631401073\/\" title=\"Jack days by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jack days\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8111\/8631401073_2e3ddc65ff_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pan of baking soda idea came from Trish.\u00a0 She said sometimes she even packs a dinosaur in a water and baking soda lump, and lets Wolfie hatch the egg by dripping the vinegar on it.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t go that far, but still Jack LOVED this. First making the colored foam.\u00a0 Then digging around with trucks and dinosaurs. Then adding more and more vinegar until it was more swamp than sand.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/8634730087\/\" title=\"Spring blizzard by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Spring blizzard\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8119\/8634730087_0bc76dacc6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I had Wolfie over for babysitting.\u00a0 These two were being pretty turdy, so I had to whip out home-made slime.\u00a0 Also called, home-made Gak, it&#8217;s a simple recipe.\u00a0 Just water, elmer&#8217;s glue, and borax.\u00a0 Luckily I had just enough glue to make a batch.\u00a0 There are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=borax+slime+recipe&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">many recipes<\/a> online.\u00a0 At first they were timid to get messy.\u00a0 But after a few minutes they embraced the slime and were coming up with several ways to play it.\u00a0 It was even Wolfie&#8217;s idea to add dinosaurs.\u00a0 This kept them busy for 45 minutes after lunch, which is, like, eternity in toddlerhood.\u00a0 <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/8637550141\/\" title=\"Slimy babysitting by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slimy babysitting\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8543\/8637550141_f2c1b7556c_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rachelsmason\/8638655758\/\" title=\"Slimy babysitting by rachelsmason, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Slimy babysitting\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8540\/8638655758_48f2ea5216_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If anyone has more, cheap, indoor play ideas, I&#8217;m all ears.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m digging all the &#8220;sensory play&#8221; ideas on Pinterest, and Jack loves them too. This is a pan of old lentils, rice, and beans.\u00a0 He drives his trucks in them, practicing digging and loading his dump trucks.\u00a0 I hid some pretend coins in there, so he can dig for buried treasure over and over.\u00a0 We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}