{"id":4409,"date":"2013-02-28T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2016-09-26T21:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:44:55","slug":"diy-fun-toddler-bean-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4409","title":{"rendered":"DIY Fun: Toddler Bean Bin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8518\/8479524538_df1460773e_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0033\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have a toddler, you know how essential busy-time is. Having something to keep the little one occupied while you need to complete a task (for me, this is most often dinner preparation)\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em>keep an eye on him is a lifesaver. This one is good for toddlers who are old enough to keep from sticking every last thing in his or her mouth, be warned!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">shallow tupperware (or other) container, large enough for him to sit in<\/span><\/li>\n<li>dry beans, rice, wheat berries, or whatever else you have on hand (I used some dry pinto beans and wheat berries that were very old and going to be otherwise tossed)<\/li>\n<li>spoons, scoops, small bowls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8509\/8478434345_26405a37d0_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0045\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s all! Place toddler into container and enjoy! Emil (18 months) enjoyed this activity so much that he played for 30 minutes straight, then returned to it several times throughout the day. Not only did Emil enjoy scooping and sorting, he also spent a great deal of time just running his hands through the mixture&#8211; such a great sensory activity! Toward the end, he did start scooping the beans out onto the floor, but after I gently reminded him that the beans stay in the bin, he kept them in, and even cleaned up any loose beans that ended up on the floor afterwards. And the greatest thing was that Milo and Oliver got in on the fun in different ways. Milo became preoccupied for an hour straight with just sorting the beans from the wheat berries, and I later added large dry white beans, which were sorted from the other sized beans. Oliver enjoyed pretending to cook with all the different &#8220;ingredients.&#8221; So I suppose we will be doing this again and again until the weather is nice enough for extended outdoor play!<\/p>\n<p>For easy clean-up, I poured the beans and wheat berries in a plastic baggie and stored in the cupboard for another time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8532\/8479524156_0ea51f5e61_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0032\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have a toddler, you know how essential busy-time is. Having something to keep the little one occupied while you need to complete a task (for me, this is most often dinner preparation)\u00a0and\u00a0keep an eye on him is a lifesaver. This one is good for toddlers who are old enough to keep from sticking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=4409\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;DIY Fun: Toddler Bean Bin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,187],"tags":[119,101,75],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy-fun","category-motherhood","tag-diy","tag-emil","tag-ingenius-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12253,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/12253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}