Rainbow Rice #2 : Mandalas & Sensory Activities

Now that I went to the effort of making all this Rainbow Rice,

I would like Big Seed to do lots of things with it.

Here are some activities:

With inspiration from Twig and Toadstool and Bodylogique

we made some Autumn Mandalas.

I cut a paper circle and blu-taked it to a plastic plate.

Big Seed wanted a rainbow and we also did a Horse Chestnut leaf

(yeah, I know, I learnt the hard way..do easy bold pictures!)

I stuck the plates onto the wall.

Then Little Seed was aching to have a go!

Give me that rice!

What is this stuff?

Oooh, nice through my fingers.

I want to chuck it on the floor....everywhere!

(End of activity!
Not one for a baby in the kitchen.
Perhaps outside when I need to dispose of it.)

I hid some plastic number tiles in the box.

Big Seed had to find them and match them up.

You can use Scrabble letter tiles, magnetic numbers/letters, 

laminated letters/words/numbers, etc.

You get the idea.

Hours of fun...and peace!

He is matching them on the lid of the box.

A Montessori activity: transferring rice from the bowl to a glass jar

with a ceramic salt spoon.

Big Seed finds this hard...all kinds of transferring and gets frustrated.

But he still likes to have a go.