I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE... SOMETHING WOODEN

One of Asthon's favourite things to do at the moment is empty toys from his toy basket. Fun huh! Basically once it is put in front of him, it is a race for him to see how quickly he can unload his toys. I had three theories as to why he was doing this. . . a.) he was exploring his motor skills of 'grab and throw'. b.) he was bored of the toys he has been playing with in there for the past week or so. Or c.) he was just testing out his destructive powers.

I would like to give Ashton the benefit of the doubt and think his motive was option A or B. If it was option A then he is going to continue doing this act no mater what i do. If it is B then I came up with the idea of changing one or two of the toys every other day, and it was amazing to see how observant and aware of this he was. As he was going through his basket emptying as son as he came across the new toy or object he would stop and have a good inspect of it and then continue playing with it.

So I thought I would take Ashton's basket of toys to a different level, instead of just having an assortment of all sorts of random toys we were going to find all toys and objects made of 'WOOD!'

We started by taking our basket out and went on a 'Wood Hunt'. As we walked around I chanted "I spy with my little eye something... wooden." While we walked and chanted we touched all the objects we passed until we found something wooden. Although Ashton probably was unaware as to the specific reason or purpose of our hunt he loved walking around touching and exploring all of the different surfaces!

Once we had found lots of different wooden objects to fill our toy basket we brought the basket back to the room to play with and it was amazing to see how much Ashton's play and exploration of the objects in the basket slowed down. He took each object out one by one and really took his time with it! We have been playing with the wooden toy basket for one week now and he is only just starting to get back into his 'grab and throw' routine! Maybe its time to go on a 'Plastic Hunt!'