Friday 8 October 2010

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.

6 comments:

  1. LOVE these ideas! I will have to find a way to use them in my yoga classes! :)

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  2. That's great that you'e making the most of it :) love the mandalas!

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  3. Really great ideas, I think we are going to have a quiet rainy weekend here so rainbow rice will be just the thing for us. Thanks for all the advice. Have a great weekend

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  4. Ver cool! Thanks for sharing..have a wonderful weekend!

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  5. I have to get round to making up some rainbow rice with my girls. It looks like so much fun.
    Thanks for all the ideas for how to use it!

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  6. grest ideas,keep up d gud wrk

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