If you had 10 pounds of lentils, material and a sewing machine what would you do?
I would make Bean Bags! And that is exactly what we did today at Summer Camp! Each child got to choose a fabric and fill it with lentils. While they waited for me to sew up the edge, they played with the lentils in a big bowl. Putting their hands into the lentils, and feeling them slide through their fingers. Pouring them from the cup over their hands. I remember a hardware store down the street from my house in West Virginia and going there with my dad. In the hardware store they had giant barrels of different grass seeds and bird seed. I remember doing exactly like the children did today…putting my hands (and half my arm) into the barrels, feeling the seeds slide through my fingers. I spent so much time doing that while my dad shopped and that is how the children were today. Do you remember ever doing that? Having that sensorial experience?
After they each got their Bean Bag stitched up, we played bean bag games of passing, tossing and catching. The children were happy with the bean bags they got to take home and during nap I made several more to replace our old bean bags for the classroom.
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After nap several children threw their bean bags in the air and Sophia snapped this picture!
