Toddler ages: 23 months, 23 months, 3.5 years
Materials you'll need:
-balls
-stairs
Another activity which is pretty much self-explanatory! Here's goes...
The balls...
The stairs...
The balls being throw towards me, down the stairs...
The boys now at the bottom of the stairs trying to throw the balls back up...
The twins back up at the top of the stairs, watching the 3-year-old stuff as many balls as possible into his sleeper so that he might bring them all back up to the top of the stairs...
(Aren't my flip flops and my stomach amazing?)
The 3-year-old having gathered most of the balls into his sleeper...
The 3-year-old passing the balls out and the twins happily receiving them...
It was only later that I realized that the 3-year-old boy was, shall we say, "commando". Nice. I think I need to sterilize the balls.
Anyway, this was really fun, but a little scary because it involved stairs, but still more fun than scary. Thanks for listening!
This was my favorite thing to do with my Grandpa way back in the day... :-) Good memories! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIn the house which I consider as 'the house I grew up in', there was a large sized laundry shoot which went from the bathroom in the upstairs, down through the main floor where it was accesible above part of the kitchen counter via a door in the kitchen wall, and on down to the basement.
ReplyDeleteWhen I say 'large sized' laundry shoot - the thing was large enough that we could fit a fully inflated basketball down it. Which we often did, when neither of our parents were to home.
And then there were the games of how high up it could you throw a tennis ball? To the person on the main floor? To the person all the way upstairs?
We never had problems with sheets, etc. getting caught in that shoot! Well actually, this one time they did, but that just might have had something to do with how one sheet had started to be put in it, and then lots of other wadded up sheets were added, and then it was (somehow)lowered just far enough that the youngest brother (the one that started kindergarden the same year I started college) could be (might have been) suspended head first into the shoot, and then both the sheets and him were (might have been) released at the same time ....
So yeah, the sheets might have gotten stuck that time .... and it might have taken arms pushing down from the kitchen door into the shoot, and somebody standing on a chair in the basement and reaching up into the shoot and pulling for all their worth to free everything (and have all of it knock the person to the floor as a wonderful (though painful) landing pad) ...
but I really can't say for sure if all of that actually did happen
o;-p