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In keeping with my "doing what I can with what I have" theme, here are some activities my toddler and I have been doing with random household goods:

Navy beans.  Levi moves them from bowl to bowl, scoops them up with measuring cups, hides small objects (like "B" for "beans") in them, runs them through his fingers.



 An egg carton, painted with watercolors to distinguish colors, plus some fuzzy pompoms from Michael's.  I didn't get any pictures of him actually playing with this, but he does like to dump them out and then sort by color.

 Daddy's shoes.  (Lately, when I say "Daddy's home!" in the afternoons, he goes to get Daddy's slippers out!)


Another big hit (of which I have no pictures) was an empty apple juice jug.  We dropped clothespins in and shook them around.  Even after I rescued my clothespins, he carried the empty jug around quite happily.

A few weeks ago, when it was too cold to go outside, I spread towels on the kitchen floor and brought in a bowl full of snow.  We drove trucks through it, buried the letter "S" in it, etc.  I would have more pictures of these things if the camera wasn't infinitely distracting (thereby making it impossible to catch a picture of him actually playing with anything).

All of these ideas were stolen and adapted in some way from three blogs: Having Fun at Home, I Can Teach My Child, and Totally Tots.  Find the links for them in the right side bar!

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