Pom Pom Shower

The Easter Bunny brought Curious Miss V some new sensory items: Pom Poms! She loved the huge ones they had at the Chicago Children's Museum. I had also seen a Pinterest idea to put pom poms inside of a cooking whisk to work on fine motor/hand-eye coordination. 

Dumping anything out of a container is fun!

I got the whisk at Aldi's and love the color and flexible-ness of it.

V was so focused and concentrated the whole time the pom poms were in the whisk. Once she freed them, the whisk got banged around a bit LOL. It is basically a big spoon right?!

Since V is getting pretty good at naming and identifying colors, I showed her how to do some color sorting of the pom poms. She put them in the right place about 75% of the time! We also worked on the letter V although I had to remake it 100 times because at this point she was walking through and kicking the pom poms!

All the stuffed animals had to be part of the action too of course!

She also put Minnie's feet (and George's and Bear's...) on the floor and had them kick the pom poms too :)

V LOVED the feel of the pom poms on her feet. I would rub one on a foot and then she'd give me the other foot to do. Then we did it all over again with a different pom pom. And then she did it to George's feet (and every single other stuffed animal).

So soft!

Lastly, we had to end with a Pom Pom shower! The "shower" game started with her Easter basket and plastic eggs that Dad would dump out on her head. Then they'd put them all back in the basket and do it 858 times. Same concept with the pom poms...but softer!

pure joy!

As you would imagine, it was pretty impossible to "clean up" the pom poms as Miss V would just dump them all out again! They were a hit for sure!