Fresh coconut juice for lunch?
Use whats left over for a scooping activity!
If you don’t have coconuts, any kind of small bowl can be used.
I scraped what was left over from the coconut meat and filled one coconut with water. I used food coloring to color the water green (I let Caleb choose of course!). Then, Caleb used a small soup ladle to scoop the water from one coconut to the other.
Don’t forget to put the coconuts on a tray for easier clean up! There will be a lot of spills!
This was taken last year when Caleb was still a year old.
Materials used:
1. refrigerator box
2. serrated kitchen knife (I used my bread knife)
3. packaging tape / any heavy-duty tape
4. watercolor paints
5. paintbrush
Sorry I don’t have pictures for the step-by-step procedure. I took these pictures before I started blogging.
Anyway, I assembled the house by cutting it with the knife and just put everything together with packaging tape. It was just a basic rectangular house. I cut out squares for the windows and a rectangle for the door. The roof was just a flat rectangle that could easily be put on top of the house frame or removed. Of course, the house could also be folded flat. This made it easier for storage after playing.
I know it doesn’t look fantastic. But Caleb had so much fun painting it and pretending to live in it. We kept the house for a month before throwing it away.
This activity is simple. It is also a wonderful practice for fine motor skills! We’ve been doing this activity ever since Caleb was 10 months old 🙂
This activity can be done earlier as long your child doesn’t put everything into their mouth.
Materials:
1. Pipe Cleaners
2. Empty plastic jar with holes drilled into the cover (had the hubby do the drilling of the holes)
3. clear tape to hold the cover in place (added this since Caleb tried to do a shortcut by opening the jar. haha!)
Caleb folded one pipe cleaner and said it’s a curvy line. I let him play with the pipe cleaners before letting him put them into the jar.
Shooting the pipe cleaners into the holes.
I guess he was feeling lazy and wanted to do a shortcut.
Giving me his melt your heart smile.
Group stuffing and smiling at me didn’t work out very well for him. So back to putting them in one by one.
You can also use sticks, straws, pasta noodles and other long materials for this activity. You are limited only by your imagination. Have fun!
Domestic Goddess Tonni 
