Messy Play with Babies and Toddlers

This week the babies and toddlers have been taking part in lots of messy play activities. They have enjoyed exploring shaving foam and soap flakes. Whilst these activities are a great way to introduce new and different textures for the children to explore they are also lots of fun and very messy!

Babies shaving foam

25/06/2012

Here is Nia, Lucinda and Sam ready to explore the foam

Nia uses her hands to squash the foam

Lucinda is having lots of fun patting her foam down

Sam has covered both of his hands!

Toddlers Soap flakes

29/06/2012

Claire and Laura took the toddlers outside and made some soap flake mixture from the Grab and Go boxes.

Food colouring was added to the mixture to make different colours. We also added some strawberry essence so the mixture would smell different too. This was great as the toddlers used a lot of different senses during this activity.

Carrie-Ann uses a scraper to move the flakes around

Diana and Lucinda explore the mixture with their fingers and brushes

claire adds the strawberry essence to Becks's mixture

And they both lean in to smell the strawberries

Lucinda liked the blue food colouring in her mixture and swirled it round with her brush

Diana also used a brush to spread the mixture along the table

Diana and Becks watch Claire add the food colouring to their mixture