Lavender with Sprinkle

(Craft)

As expat who live in a country where the closest thing you could get of a lavender is only in the form of essential oil, lavender theme is quite a challenge.

I introduced her to lavender from our trip visiting a lavender field before she was born. To luck we had not only landscape view of it but also detailed macro pictures to show her. Then we continued with a craft, to make lavender field using her favorite thing: sprinkle.

Materials:

-glue

-green crayon

-purple circles made by using punch holes

-a paper

-2 jar lids as containers

Instruction:

-present the materials in front of your toddler

-ask your toddler to draw stem lines on the paper using the green crayon

-ask your toddler to glue around the top stem

-hand over the sprinkle container and let your toddler have fun with it

The challenge was whether a toddler could draw the stem or not. I noticed that Y has changed her doodle movement. She used to like to draw in circular. These past 2-3 weeks she likes to draw straight lines, especially when she draw on a tray or clipboard. She would lean the tray using it like it’s an easel and draw straight lines from top to bottom (depending on the length of paper, usually her reach would only reach halfway). This is why I thought it would work with lavender stem. Which it perfectly did!

After drawing stem, everything went quick since she is already familiar with glue and sprinkle at the moment.

Once the craft was done, she began counting how many sprinkle were there (definitely too much to count) and then how many lavender stems. Eventually this craft became an open ended play after she brought Everest from her Paw Patrol team to join along to the rescue on her lavender field.

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