How Slow Can You Go?

(Open ended play)

It’s a weekend and we have been spending time outdoor for as much as we can without any phone in hand. This is a late post from earlier this week.

Y saw a snail for the first time (that she realized of) that very morning. It’s more a rock that’s moving really really slow for her.

Materials:

-10 paper snails

-a big dried leaf

-dried red kidney beans

-a tractor toys

-a tray

Instruction:

-present the materials in front of you kiddo

-let your kiddo play freely

We have lots of paper strips at home and repurposed them for making this snails at home. It was more to a sensory tray for Y with beans, big dried leaf from her morning collection, tractor toys and colorful snails to play with.

She was so excited to see what’s on the tray after nap. I wasn’t quite sure if she knew it was snails, so I said “I made you snails out of paper. Do you remember how the real snail walk?”

The snail actually moves by creeping on a flat "foot" underneath its body. She made a wiggle with shrugs on her shoulder. to copy how snail move from what she saw earlier. “It’s still too fast! They move slow, really slow. Can you go slower?”

She went on a tad slower and then quickly change to a quick movement. She knew, but she just didn’t want to be anything slow.

She counted the snails, made them line in queue. She then focused playing with dried beans and tractor toys.

She transferred the snails into the leaf before moving them back to the tray and squeezed the dried leaf into pieces.

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