Delivery

I ordered something and knew it would be arriving soon.  I told the children something new was coming - they were very excited.  "What is it?"  "I'm not telling, it is a surprise."

It arrived on Monday - at nap time as usual - I'm fairly certain that all couriers are required to make daycare deliveries at nap time and they get a bonus if they kick the door at the same time as they ring the doorbell... *sigh*

I decided to wait to introduce the new items - but the packaging was fun for day one;

Making a 'sidewalk'.

'Crinkles' when we walk on it;

Plenty of after nap fun with just the packaging;

Day two - let's open the little boxes that came in the big box;

What are these?

Let's sort them;

They're called 'Balance Pods' - Can you stand on them?

Is it easier or harder if they are upside down?

Maybe we should hold hands;

Even the baby wants to try;

Let's see if we can sit on them;

Or walk;

So many new things to try - this is only the beginning;

Alligator Hunt

I went to Ikea last weekend and picked up some new stuffed animals;

Back at home I put away the toys from the loose parts bin – they’ve been out for several weeks and it was time for a change.  I replaced them with some miscellaneous toddler toys.  These are odds and ends that don’t fit with other toy sets so I grouped them together;

This was an unintentional set-up.

The Duplo blocks have been available in the block bin for almost two months – I won’t change the blocks until the children start losing interest in playing with them.   One of the toddlers found an alligator in the loose parts bin and decided it belonged in the block area with the Duplo alligator;

We then decided to go on an alligator hunt to see if we could find any more alligators.  They found the new stuffie and put him in the ‘water’ area so he could ‘swim’;

I found an alligator in one of the November/December books but the toddlers were more interested in the other ones – the ones they discovered.

Going on an alligator hunt may have resulted because I had all the ‘right’ items available but maybe….it was a connection the toddlers made during free play and I just noticed what they did.