I did this same activity with Boris when he was about the same age as Biscuit so I was keen to do it again with them both to compare how Biscuit would react and how Boris would react a year on.
Playing with spaghetti is such a simple but fun sensory play experience, it is cheap and cheerful and fun to look at.
I coloured the spaghetti with food colouring after it was cooked.
It was a great activity, Biscuit essentially just sat and ate it, but I was ok with that, it was great to provide an activity which they could both take part it.
Boris enjoyed picking up the spaghetti and throwing it around. He broke it into pieces and mixed all the colours up.
The activity was useful for improving fine motor skills, particularly the pincer movement for Biscuit, and was great for exploring texture, Boris also used his imaginative powers by pretending the spaghetti was worms! (By the way, the colour on the spaghetti does make a bit of a mess, be sure to use suitable protective equipment bot on the floor and your toddler!)This is a really easy activity, doesn't take long to set up and is cheap. Have you used spaghetti in any other ways as a sensory play tool?
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