This post is a bit late and this activity was actually done
a couple of nights ago. My one-year-old was a bit restless since we had been
inside all day and I, myself, was tired from cleaning the house. That being
said, I wanted something that was both easy to clean up and fairly simple to
set up.
I have been trying to find ways to utilize a couple of bags
of cotton balls that I had previously purchased for a crafting play date earlier
in the month and discovered this idea on Pinterest. Five minutes later I had
the contact paper taped (upside down) to my daughter’s activity table and gave
her a bucket of cotton balls, q-tips, and Styrofoam packing peanuts and let her
go crazy.
She played with the whole set up for about 15 minutes. Her
favorite part was to take the cotton balls and stick them to the contact paper and
pick them up so they left cotton fibers. But eventually she got bored with it
and soon discovered that the packing peanuts could be torn and shredded into
smaller pieces (that were so much fun picking up afterward). She did this for
about another 10 minutes.
Overall, I’d say this was a pretty successful activity. It
lasted for about half an hour and clean up wasn’t horrible. If we keep with my
previous rating system, I’d give this activity 5 stars.
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