One of my favourite things to up-cycle are squeeze pouch caps. They are colourful and round and the perfect size for toddler and preschooler hands. As long as your little one has stopped putting things in her mouth, these little gems are a perfect play and learning resource.
In this activity, I paired them with water to make a super easy, no prep sensory bin activity for my three year old.
Grab all of your supplies. Set the sensory bins on the towel. Fill it up with an inch or two of water. Add the caps and play kitchen utensils and you are done!
Almost immediately the pretend play began. Honestly, this was a bigger hit that I could have possibly imagined.
My daughter is really into playing restaurant and waiter right now and so she took to the role of soup kitchen owner immediately. Severing up hot pea soup and more to all her customers.
Each colour cap was assigned a food. Red was apples, orange was oranges, yellow was either bananas or lemon, green was peas, blue was blue berries, purple was eggplant or grapes and pink was strawberries!
She used the cups, bowls and slotted spoon to scoop, dip and pour!
She used the cutlery to test out her different creations before she served them up to her customers.
Testing the temperature to ensure that she didn’t burn any tongues!
HUGE Hit
This was a gigantic hit with my preschooler. I attempted to put it away in the evening before bedtime and she told me to leave it out so that she could play with it again tomorrow.
This just gives me more incentive to save those caps. There are so many fun ways to play with them. And I guarantee if I had added play food to the sensory bin she would not have played for as long as she did or enjoy it as much.
Its because she had to use her imagination that made this activity such a hit!
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I wanted to see the stone activity and it wouldn’t take me there, otherwise cool stuff.
Thank you! And I fixed the link. It should take you to the Stone Washing post now!
Thanks. I fixed the stone washing link. It should take you to the correct activity now.
Wow, this is so cute and I’m sure my daughter would love this too. Glad that you share this
How fun! My kids loved playing with stuff like this when they were this age!
Thank you! Simple toys are always best right! Let them use their imagination!
Wow such a cute activity it is. Caps Kitchen I am sure the darling in the picture had a lovely time.
Thank you. She did!
This is SO clever!! I have been throwing these caps away but now I am going to start collecting them!
Thank you!