I posted earlier this week about Sweet Pea building with marshmallows and toothpicks. I thought I’d build on that a bit (get it) and share what else he likes to do with them!
Sweet Pea is big into counting anything and everything right now. We practice counting with them!
Fine motor practice at this age is great, as 5 year olds are learning to print their names and draw pictures. Picking a marshmallow up with toothpicks is great fine motor and coordination work and is fun, too! Sweet Pea likes to pick them up one at a time with the point of a toothpick (the dull-ended ones work for this, too). He likes to see how many he can fit on a toothpick. Once I challenged him to see if he could pick one up with two toothpicks. He liked that!
Sometimes we get the colored mini marshmallows. That’s always fun because he likes sorting by color, and you can make patterns with those, too!
Now, I don’t want you to think I let Sweet Pea have marshmallows all the time. This is an every once in a while treat. I just thought I’d share the fun (educational) things we do with them, rather than just eat them!
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