Most parts of the world people need to carry water. We are blessed to have water running into our home. On hot days it is easy to want to fill the kiddy pool or play with the hose for hours on end. However, in trying to figure out other ways, more conservation oriented ways, to cool off and have fun I decided to give the boys each a pan and a measuring cup. The first challenge was to carry the pan of water to our bench 25 ft away from the house. A slosh here and a slosh there: refreshing.
The boys then had a lot of fun adding items to their bowls- green plums and sticks. Then, they started to carry their measuring cups around the bench and over by mother as though they were delivering tea. So much fun. I can imagine changing this activity to be more of a challenge - carrying water from one pot to the other in a measuring cup, races, ....but luckily the boys don't need mom inventing things fro them rather they continue to make their own discoveries- so much wiser than me.
Some of that sounds very Montessori. And you do offer such a nice balance of giving ideas and boys doing their own discovery. Smart!
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