Fairy Week: Tiny Sugar Cube Towers

I cannot believe how long it is taking me to type up all our Fairy Week activities

I think I will start with a quick recap of the activities I have shared so far

Sensory Soup and Water Bead Tea

Fairy Food Fun

Glass and Mirrors Fairy Village

And there are still two more to come

But for now

Let me tell you about when we made tiny sugar cube towers

Esther and William love small scale sensory play at the moment

I often make them something in a baking tray for when they get home from school

This activity was just half a box of sugar cubes and a baking tray

1 fairy building blocks

We talked about how tiny fairies live at the bottom of the garden

We talked about their houses are much smaller than ours

We talked about how everything fairy is smaller than everything human

I told them that they were going to be builders

Making things with their sparkly sugary bricks

For fairy land

A magical land of fairies at the bottom of our garden

Esther and William enjoy making things

William in particular likes ordering things

Making lines and measuring them

Counting objects and counting them again

I asked William the other day what he would like to be when he grows up

And he said, ‘The person who checks the numbers’

3 counting and comparing

William built walls with his sugar cubes

To keep the fairies safe in fairy land

He counted the bricks

Organised them into lines

Compared the lines

And counted them again

2 rapunzel towers

Esther made towers

Rapunzel towers

The towers of fairy tales

Esther is all about the magical

William the logical

number lines

I love watching Esther and William play

The way they interact with each other

They extend their play in different ways

Independently and together

It is fascinating to see

How they interpret and use the same materials so differently

4 high and long

This was not a long activity

Esther and William were soon ready to move on

Esther noticed that the cubes were crumbling

5 mark and tower making

She used the granules for mark making

Before we decided to go outside

To the water table

To learn about melting and dissolving

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