Dear reader,
There are a ton of nesting toys for kids, and we even have some. Toddlers love them. I would assume it’s kind of the same thrill people get when they complete a puzzle, but I have no real idea. We have this ball, and rainbows like this, (no affiliate links, just toys we own), but I wanted something that they could just collect and stack together no matter what order they were in, and all of our stacking toys have a very specific order. I feel like that is a later skill. So I walked around my house looking for things that stacked together. At first I was going to use real cups, but then I remembered we had these plastic ones, and I had more of them than I had regular cups, so I could scatter them around and let the girls collect them, instead of just handing each of them 2 or 3 cups.
It was a nice day, and the girls were all being super destructive and dangerous in the house (seriously, I’ve gotta come up with a way to convince my toddlers to stop trying to climb onto the piano!) so I scattered the cups onto the deck and sent them outside. Score some points for hand/eye coordination and spatial perception skills, and I sound like a cool and with-it mom! All for distracting a few toddlers with some cups.
Actually, it was a great reset, since we were all getting a little wound up from all the “don’ts” that had been happening just a few minutes earlier. And I’m convinced sunshine is a good thing for little kids. I mean obviously, this activity could have been done indoors, but let’s soak up all the cool weather while we have the chance.
