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Spaghetti Play
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18 to 23 Months |聽Oral Language
<b>Prep: 10鈥15 Minutes | Activity Time: 5鈥10 Minutes</b></p>\r\n<p>Cook a pot of spaghetti, but not for supper! Fill up a large plastic bowl with cooked spaghetti and let your toddler explore. Talk about the shape, texture and color of the spaghetti. Describe what you see your little one do as she experiments with this new medium. </p>\r\n"}} id=text-142ce2ef19 class=cmp-text>
Prep: 10鈥15 Minutes | Activity Time: 5鈥10 Minutes
Cook a pot of spaghetti, but not for supper! Fill up a large plastic bowl with cooked spaghetti and let your toddler explore. Talk about the shape, texture and color of the spaghetti. Describe what you see your little one do as she experiments with this new medium.聽
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- Spaghetti pasta
- Large plastic bowls (2)
- Large vinyl tablecloth
- Large spoons and safe utensils
<b>Step 1: </b>Cook a pot of spaghetti pasta and let it cool.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 2:</b> Lay a large vinyl tablecloth on the floor. Put a large plastic bowl filled with the spaghetti in the middle of the tablecloth. Provide a few utensils to pick up the pasta and another empty large plastic bowl for transferring the pasta.</p>\r\n<p><b>Step 3: </b>Invite your child over to explore the spaghetti! Sit back and watch. Describe what you see your child doing. For example:</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40.0px;\">鈥淵ou are picking up the spaghetti! How does it feel? It鈥檚 smooth and slippery.鈥</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40.0px;\">鈥淚 see you moving the spaghetti into the other bowl.鈥</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40.0px;\">鈥淚t鈥檚 hard to pick up spaghetti with the spoon. It keeps falling off!鈥</p>\r\n<p style=\"margin-left: 40.0px;\">鈥淵ou are pulling the spaghetti apart into little, tiny pieces.鈥</p>\r\n"}} id=text-32bf3d4623 class=cmp-text>
Step 1: Cook a pot of spaghetti pasta and let it cool.
Step 2: Lay a large vinyl tablecloth on the floor. Put a large plastic bowl filled with the spaghetti in the middle of the tablecloth. Provide a few utensils to pick up the pasta and another empty large plastic bowl for transferring the pasta.
Step 3: Invite your child over to explore the spaghetti! Sit back and watch. Describe what you see your child doing. For example:
鈥淵ou are picking up the spaghetti! How does it feel? It鈥檚 smooth and slippery.鈥
鈥淚 see you moving the spaghetti into the other bowl.鈥
鈥淚t鈥檚 hard to pick up spaghetti with the spoon. It keeps falling off!鈥
鈥淵ou are pulling the spaghetti apart into little, tiny pieces.鈥