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Indoor Sandbox

You can make an indoor sandbox by filling up a cardboard box or plastic baby bathtub with puffed wheat or rice cereal or uncooked rice. Here are also some alternatives that may be purchased fairly inexpensively in bulk. They provide an interesting sensory experience for toddlers.

Materials
  • water softener
  • salt
  • shredded paper
  • birdseed
  • cedar shavings
  • dried beans
  • deer corn
  • oatmeal
  • foam packing peanuts
  • cornmeal
  • potting soil (if you're brave!)

Directions

  1. Children enjoy playing in the sandbox with cups, spoons, bowls, buckets, scoops, shovels, cars, and other toys and containers.
  2. A funnel and scoop that can be used to fill an empty plastic soda bottle with sandbox material will also be a hit.
  3. An old sheet, shower curtain, or plastic tablecloth placed under the sandbox makes cleanup a little easier.

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Copyright © 1999 by Patricia Kuffner. Excerpted from The Toddler's Busy Book with permission of its publisher, Meadowbrook Press.

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