I was surfing Pintrest.com
the other day, shocking I know and found the image of this great looking craft
or better named learning activity for toddlers. The child pictured was simply using spaghetti noodles that were pointing
straight up from dough and threading cheerios on them. I thought; I have cheerios; I have spaghetti
noodles; I have play dough. I should try
this. So that very afternoon around my
sons snack time I sat him in his high chair and decided to give this a try.
Besides being handy and easy to assemble I found that my
child loved this little game. He could eat
the cheerios on his tray or put them down the spaghetti sticks. If a noodle broke it didn’t matter because it
offered varying lengths to play with and I of course had plenty more. I played with him for a while and would add
cheerios to sticks making “O” sounds when one made it down the noodle which
brought on giggling from Will. Will was
also happy playing with them himself.I kept the dough in the cup to spare the mess. I also did this in a high chair so there would be no play dough accidents on the carpet.
All-in-all Will played with this activity for about 30 minutes. I highly recommend it as a cold or rainy day activity or maybe while you are trying to get something done without little ones under your feet.It seems very open to substitutions of other snack foods, homemade dough, straws instead of noodles – whatever you may have on hand. I really enjoyed that if he ate anything from this craft they were mostly food items and non-toxic. In future, I think I may try to use real food dough instead of play dough so that it is a food product as well. I have seen a few recipes on Weelicious.com for kid dough.
Result: Parents enjoyed them - SUCCESS! Toddler enjoyed them - SUCCESS!
