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Fun with Weights

Materials

  • Bathroom scale
  • Various household objects

Directions

  1. Using a bathroom scale, weigh your child and help her weigh household objects: a stack of books, a bag of flour, dolls, and so on.
  2. Try to find something that weighs the same amount as your child.

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Copyright © 1998 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Preschooler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.

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