February 25th, 2014

Water Beads

Today we played with water beads in our sensory table and it was a lot of fun!  They are the beads that you can get in a florist dept at walmart, michaels - anywhere.  They are supposed to go in vases either for decorations or to slowly give water to plants.  They start out really tiny and then you let them soak overnight in water and they blow right up.  They are fine for little kids as long as they don't eat them, so Harper and I played together with them for a long time.  They are a weird almost spongy material that kind of bounce!  The big ones are really fun to squeeze and squish, but I tried to discourage that so we could get a few times out of them, then we will squish them to pieces :)  Harper loved scooping them up with her scooper, her hands and looking at herself in the ball.  Those are the last couple pictures and she thought it was hilarious!!