Pouring Practice

Not every project I do with the kids is a success and some are disasters!  I was going to post today about making gingerbread houses from scratch, but that project failed.  Miserably.  The gingerbread itself turned out fine, but the icing was way runny and I realized that I had tossed out all the candy laying around our house, so we were going to have to decorate with dried fruit.  We gave up.

But we did have fun doing the part we did!

So instead, we worked on our pouring skills today.  Liliana loves to help herself to milk and juice, but she could use a little practice with it.  Our kitchen has carpet in it and she once poured an entire gallon of orange juice on the floor and then sweetly said "Oops!  I missed." 

We had the kiddy pool in our house already from the rainbow rice, but you could easily do this in the bathtub.  I grabbed a bunch of stuff from our kitchen and recycling bin.

I put water in the pitcher, and she set right to work. 

She did GREAT!!!  So well that I was thinking to myself maybe we should let her pour her own drinks more often!

Then she did not so great.

A good half of that missed.  And then....well....I saw this coming, which is why she was in her swimsuit.

She ended up splashing around for awhile until she got cold, and then her barbies took a turn going for a swim.  I will definitely be doing this again with her though because it kept her thoroughly entertained, was really great practice, and actually wasn't too difficult to clean up. 

Success!