Dear Reader,
I don’t know what it is, but my toddlers are *obsessed* with my laundry baskets. I have a few different shapes and they love them all. It doesn’t matter if there is laundry in them. They’ll climb up onto the laundry and throw the pieces out one at a time. If they’re empty, they’ll fill them. And once they fill them, they will climb up into the basket, on top of all the toys or clothes or whatever they filled the basket with, and throw those out one at a time, too!
Today’s favorite thing to fill the basket with: lids from applesauce pouches. I’ve been saving some of each color to come up with some kind of game, eventually. But the girls just like playing with them, so no game is necessary, I guess.
That being said, I knew I wanted some game while they were playing with baskets and I couldn’t think of any “on purpose” game until my mom told me to flip the basket over this afternoon. The lids go between the holes in the basket really well, so, I spent a few seconds showing them to poke the lids through the upside down basket, and they played with the basket that way for a few minutes.
The nice thing about flipping the basket is the extra hand/eye coordination it takes to fit a lid through a smaller hole. And it was a new game, so it was worth thr little extra work for them to want to keep at it. I’m sure they’ll still play with the baskets like before, but maybe they’ll get a little extra hand/eye practice in now that they realize they can flip the basket over, too!
