Quiet Time Boxes - Tuesday

 

Mothers of little boys, rejoice! After Monday's Girlie Girl Box, todays Quiet Box has unisex appeal! Now, onto Tuesday's Box ...


Theme: Exploration Tub

Contents:

• A File folder activity centred around Baby Animals, from a free download here at 1+1+1=1 (check out the site whilst you're there, it's amazing!)
• Two 'Hunt' books: 'Wild Animal Hunt' and 'Bugs and Reptiles Hunt'. They are available from Kmart at $5 each, and have very cool pages - you stick a 'spotlight' inside a pocket of the picture pages, and it illuminates the images. Eden LOVED these! 

 

• A Baby Animals picture book and sticker pack, which was given as a gift
• Jumping Frog game in which you try to make the little frogs jump into the frog tray, which we already had
• Binoculars ($1 from Kmart)
• Snap bangle - remember these, or am I just showing my age? ... 21, by the way ;> - $2 from the $2 Shop
• Another faceted viewing-tube-thing that is like looking through a crystal (which we had in Monday's box too)
• Wooden animal threading beads and laces, which we also already had
• Play telescope, already had
• Box of shells and a few starfish for exploring with the magnifying glass, already had





• Box of coloured pencils for using with the File folder activity, already had
• Mickey Mouse jigsaw puzzle, $1 from Sam's Warehouse ($2 for a pack of two)
• Magnifying glass, which we already had

This was the most costly box to put together at $14, $10 of which was for the books, but it was worth it. My girl loved, and I do mean LOVED those books. We do not have a garden, but if we did I would have had flowers, leaves, sticks and rocks/pebbles in this box. I thought about putting in some toy animals but the girls play with these quite regularly so they would be missed in their normal playtime.

Quiet Time: Eden got another solid two hours of play with this one, and she didn't want to stop; I actually had to ask her to stop playing and pack up (never happens)!

I hope this has helped someone out there, and I encourage you to give it a try if your children no longer nap or maybe just need a little alone time in their day. 

Have a look at the other boxes here:

Monday's Quiet Time box
Wednesday's Quiet Time box
Thursday's Quiet Time box
Friday's Quiet Time box
Toddler Busy Tub

Thanks for reading, and happy Quiet Time Playing! ~ L.