Dear Reader;
As I said in my post on Saturday, my preschooler and I made mmm monsters this week. Of course her sisters wanted to help, but my preschooler was excited about the one-on-one time with Mom and did *not* want to share her craft. Understandable, really. So I divided the eyeballs in half and my preschooler had half and my toddlers played with the other half. I was thinking later, I would make some kind of sensory bin with the eyes and actually keep them entertained, but they were so content the whole time we were working, I didn’t need to bother!
I would say it was a surprisingly good pincer grasp activity, because the eyes weren’t that easy to pick up off the table. because of their semi-spherical shape, they required extra focus to grasp onto. They focused pretty hard on being able to pick them up. Like I said, it kept them way more entertained than I thought it would to just sprinkle the eyes on the table, but I’m not complaining one bit. Sister and I got done with our activity long before they were bored of playing with googly eyes. They even figured out how to hold them up to their own eyes and make silly faces and get their co-conspirators to giggle.
I guess it’s a good idea to remind you that googly eyes are definitely a choking hazard, so watch your littles. Mine were sitting right next to me, so they were within my sight at all times.
