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Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« on: February 25, 2013, 09:07:51 am »
DD consistently finishes a meal and then plays for a while tipping water all over her tray and rubbing any leftover food into it. I tried teaching her not to but now she does it saying "no...mess" over and over. Cute, but not really the learning I was hoping for ;)

I figure that she might stop doing it if she had an opportunity to learn about gravity and water at some other play oppotunity. She has a water tray but it's for outside & it's just too cold. She has lots of opportunity at bath time to play each day.

Anyone have any fun, not too messy indoor ideas?
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 09:33:37 am »
I just put a casserole (flattish) dish on the table with a few cm's water, a small cup, spoons, a couple of other bits and bobs, and she sits in her booster and plays. not mess free, but a towel underneath the chair keeps it fairly mess free  :). 

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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 12:25:03 pm »
That sounds great Claire, thanks :)
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 13:02:01 pm »
You have probably already tried it - but something else which dd found fascinating (and similar to smearing food over the table  :P) was corn flour and water.  Put some corn flour into a tray and then give them a cup of water to pour into it, and some things to stir it with (wooden spoons etc) and let them play with the paste.  It makes a really weird texture - when you pick it up you can roll it into a hard ball but then it collapses into runny goo. 
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 13:21:48 pm »
Oh yes, we did that ages ago, but I'd forgotten about it - right off to but some cornflour! :)
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2013, 20:02:10 pm »
i used to stand ds at the kitchen sink on a chair, fill it with water and a handfil of kitchen plastics and let him go nuts!
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2013, 20:42:33 pm »
Thanks Mashi, she does this at my mum's house & loves it, but my sink is not really child safe. Maybe I'll try the bathroom sink...
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2013, 21:05:41 pm »
My boss lets DS lean against the outside of the bath and squirt an old shower gel bottle filled with water into it, which he finds hilarious  ;D

It's not too messy as long as you monitor where the bottle is pointing, and can be quickly refilled from the bath tap  ;)
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Re: Gravity/water play ideas for a 16 month old
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2013, 21:07:49 pm »
Quote from: Hedgehog17 on February 25, 2013, 21:05:41 pm
It's not too messy as long as you monitor where the bottle is pointing, and can be quickly refilled from the bath tap  ;)

Lol! We'll try that too - this is going to be fun :)
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