I hid the milk, butter and cheese pictures underneath and sat some of the children’s toy cows on top. Are you looking for a Fun, Easy, FREE Game for the Kids to do in the holidays, or on a long car journey? I added artificial flowers to the left and right side of the tuff tray and added some artificial leaves on top of them. To begin with I just enjoyed watching them play freely without any direction or questioning from me.

We played with it for hours and because the ingredients are dry I have been able to keep them, those that were not eaten(! We discussed the collection of nectar and how pollen is also transmitted from flower to flower by the bee. The transport tray was created using a variety of materials from cereal, rice, water beads, and rocks. I’d quite like to try filling the tuff tray with oobleck next time so Sophie can try jumping and standing on it.

It’s been one of the most useful things I’ve bought for the children and has been getting a lot of use recently as we’ve been mostly keeping our outdoor activities restricted to the garden. I also dyed some rice by putting it in a ziplock bag with some green paint, squishing the bag until the rice was all covered and then pouring it out into a tray to dry. Different animals with different family units were used in the tray to link it back to how other children have different family setups.

I piled the black dyed sugar cubes, black beans, wooden blocks and white stones in piles for Harry to use his diggers to move around. This tray provides a way to build knowledge about the world, as well as motor skills, counting, and creativity. We have started some work on letters and sounds and she can recognise b,e,w,p,h,t and some others, mostly those that are the start on an engine name in Thomas!Tales from the Tuff Spot is going to be a Monday night post about a messy or sensory play activity linked to a story, rhyme or song. Rainbow Busy Tray - If you are wondering how to get the most out of your busy tray, this rainbow-themed play activity is such a great opportunity to learn about colours. I created a few areas to the tuff spot – the first area was the muddy area for the vegetables – I made this up by colouring some rice brown to look like mud and leaving in a baking try to bury the vegetable pictures into it for them to ‘farm’ later on. Without these technologies, things like personalised recommendations, your account preferences, or localisation may not work correctly.

Then when we read the story my little girl would post the food in the caterpillar's mouth as we went through it.

These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. We have a duck pond with water (and a bit of blue food colouring), muddy pig puddle (cornflour, cocoa, and water), green coloured rice for the field, Rice Krispies and oat mix for the chickens and polenta for the farm track. She was very pleased with herself that she knew what the words said, because of the shape or the pictures. We took mud from the garden and some leaves and sticks we collected on a walk and added them to the tray.