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Rainbow Spaghetti – Day 5 Toddler Play Challenge

November 5, 2013 by Emma Gadsby Leave a Comment

After being inspired by Love, Play and Learn I thought we would try the activity with Adam and his cousin Beth. Check our Love, Play and Learn with how to make the rainbow spaghetti.

We were at Nana’s house for the day. I thought it would interesting to see if Adam got more involved with the messy play if he watched his cousin play with it. After covering the floor with a plastic table cloth.

I tipped two of the bags of spaghetti into a bowl and let Beth and Adam explore.

Amazingly Adam wasn’t put off by the texture and saw it as a ’taking-it-out-and-putting-it-back-in-activity’ whereas Beth saw it as lunch!

They played well alongside each other although it was interesting observing their different personalities. Beth got stuck in straight away. She covered her body in the spaghetti, rubbing it between her toes and put what she could grab into her mouth. Adam, on the other hand, barely dropped a piece, only touched it with his fingers and preferred to transfer the spaghetti from one place to another rather than explore its texture.

Later that afternoon, back at home, we got the rainbow spaghetti out again but this time I gave him some kitchen utensils and a tray. He was more animated the second time and enjoyed watching the spaghetti fall from a height back into the bowl.

I was surprised by his fine motor skills as he was able to pick up the individual strands of spaghetti easily. As always, Adam ended up using his throwing skills and found it hilarious to throw spaghetti across the room in big chunks. So glad we have a wooden floor!

 

Equipment:

* Cooked spaghetti

* Food colouring – we would now use Wilton Food Colouring (affiliate link)

* Ziploc Heavy Duty Freezer Bags (affiliate link)

* Large bowl

 

Adam was 18 months old.

 

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Filed Under: Play Activities, Some time required, Supervision needed Tagged With: 100 day toddler play challenge, 30 day toddler play challenge, Colours, Cupboard Resources, Edible Play Activities, Fine Motor Activities, Food colouring, Messy activity, Rainbow, Sensory Play Activities, Zip-loc plastic bag

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During a difficult pregnancy suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) Emma vowed to make every day an adventure once she had recovered. Adventures of Adam is the outcome of completing a 100 day play challenge with Adam as part of that promise. Emma has a section dedicated to HG friendly play activities so that Mums can still be part of their children’s play whilst they are ill.

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