K has always seem to prefer playing with water to sand, and I tend to keep those 2 elements quite separate (for play at home) for the convenience of cleaning up thereafter. However, I did not know what came over me about a week ago when I gave him both sand and water to play with at home.
It was only then I realised that sand and water is a good idea at the beach or in Jacob Ballas Children's Garden, but it is never a good idea to be explored at home. I reminded him to restrict his area of play to the balcony and not to venture to my sofa or the living room, however forgot to mention the walls in the balcony. He is at the age where it is safe to leave him by himself while he plays, or so I thought. When I left him alone at his sand and water table for 10 minutes, he discovered the thrill of making mud balls and threw it all over the walls and the floor of the balcony. He made such a huge mess that my helper and I ended up scraping the sand off the walls and floor for the next half an hour. Being the budget conscious mom, I made sure that we collected the sand in trays put them out in the sun to dry, so that K could play with it again.
So for this week, I made sure that sand and water play is restricted to the outdoors at Jacob Ballas. He hasn't reach the age of building sandcastles and had more fun filling the buckets, mixing water with the sand, pouring it all out and then filling again.
We have been to Jacob Ballas countless number of times, however we have never ventured beyond the water and sand area. It never fails to rain every single time after K is done with water play, it is quite strange really, how we tend to go there when the weather seems perfectly fine in the morning but will be pouring in the early afternoon.
Will probably be finding more excuses (especially when dh is away and I have the car) to skip school in the mornings and visit Jacob Ballas a little more often in the next few months.
Sand and water play are fun. Most kids love them! Mine simply can’t resist them. You’re really adventurous to let Kyle do BOTH at home, at the same time! I’m still not so brave.
I regretted my ‘brave’ decision to do sand and water play at home, just too messy. Even if Kyle had alot of fun, its too much of a hassle to play it at home. I will stick to water or sand only moving forward.
My boy love sand & water too!! He always ask to go to beach whenever he see the beach toys!! I am planning to bring back some sand from my hometown (melaka) to my new house but not sure whether my hubby will agree with that!! Lets hope he will agree then!!