Squishy Bag

We are big fans of Play At Home Mom, and often experiment with the fun activities they outline there. Yesterday Bria wanted to do a “project,” so we pulled up the website, and did this one...

…or at least our own variation on it. We didn’t have glitter, so we had to forego that piece, but the rest of it was great fun!

It ended up being a two day project for us. On the first day, Bria put the bits together and played happily with the bag, but there wasn’t much “writing” on it. 

Instead, she spent a lot of time squishing it – and loving that! She squished and molded and had all sorts of fun with her Ziploc bag of brightly colored gel.

We left it on the coffee table overnight, though, and the next day she was getting a bit more adventurous with it. 

At one point she decided to open it, which was a crazy mess just waiting to happen! So we took another piece of advice from the post and taped it to cardboard. 

In fact, Dad ended up taping all of the edges down with duct tape and creating a sort of board, which she promptly began practicing letters and shapes on. She loves it!

“This is a B, for me,” she announced, as she made a B in the gel with her finger.