When I was making the edible jelly worms I had a lot of jelly left over. I decided to have another try at the activity I attempted on Day 12. I didn’t have enough leftovers to cover the cars but I did have some animals from Pound Land.
I placed the animals in the bottom of a bowl and poured the remaining jelly over the top. The jelly ended up in the fridge for two nights.
This time when I tipped it onto the Tuff Spot the jelly had completely encased the animals. The additional gelatine certainly made a difference.
Adam looked pretty disgusted at the prospect of having to touch the jelly.
To be honest even I was a little put off. He didn’t mind using the scoops though to try to free the animals. However he soon resorted to using his fingers.
Whilst he was digging out the animals I placed the edible worms from yesterday onto the Tuff Spot. Whilst I was experimenting with getting the worms out of the straws Adam alternated between playing with the edible worms activity and digging out the animals.
Eventually we managed to dig out all of the animals.
I flipped the jelly over to see if we could push the animals into it. Adam had other plans and pushed a straw into it. He discovered it made a circle imprint so carried on. He then realised the straws would stay upright if he left them in.
I am glad I re-attempted the activity from Day 12. The second attempt was certainly more successful!
Equipment:
* Jelly mixture left over from Day 63 activity
* Bowl
* Plastic toy animals
* Spoons
* Tuff Spot Tray 
Adam was 20 months old.
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This is brilliant, I need to make my little man a dinosaur jelly swamp in the summer holidays. I wonder how many of us Jellies there’s going to be today? xx
Gelatine will be your friend after this activity!
My children are a bit old for this now but it looks like fun!
Never to old to dig in jelly!
What a fantastic idea, we definitely want to give this a go. #alphabetphoto x
Have fun with it!
The jelly activity looks so much fun! I can already imagine the slushy texture of the jelly! #alphabetphoto
I think I got carried away with the gelatine so the jelly was very tough to break!
I can imagine some children loving this, while others would give it a miss, no matter what was hidden in it. And I know a few that would just eat it, what ever you said. #AlphabetPhoto
Certainly not an activity for everyone!
This is fab! I did dinosaurs in jelly a while ago, the boys absolutely loved it! #alphabetphoto
Great idea to use dinosaurs.
What a brilliant and inventive messy play idea!! One for the memory bank I think!! #alphabetphoto
Thank you. Hope you get a lot of enjoyment from it.
Looks interesting, those tuff spots are such a great idea, never thought to use jelly with play #alphabetphoto
You will never look at jelly in the same light again!
This is such a fun activity and I know for a fact that my toddler would LOVE this!
That is such a good idea, must have been quite fun to do too. I just love the look on Adam’s face, such a picture! Thanks for sharing with #alphabetphoto