Rice Tray Diggers

from 36 months · 15-20 min · Sensory

What you need

Put the rice tray on an old sheet on the floor, with the diggers, trucks, scoops and cups beside it.
When your child's friend or cousin arrives, give the site a job: dig a hole in one corner and build a hill in the other.
With one digger, split the work: one builder scoops rice into the truck while the other drives the loads to the hill, then they swap.
When the hill is done, ask them to show you round the site, then help tip the rice back into its tub.

A hole and a hill need digging and carrying at the same time, so the work splits into two jobs, and the swap halfway gives both a turn on the digger.

Sharing a job: One loads, one drives, then they swap.
Scooping and tipping: Filling the truck to the top and emptying it at the hill.
Talking it through: Telling each other where the next load goes.

Notice them telling each other whose turn it is on the digger.

An old sheet underneath catches the spills. Rice is for digging, not eating, so stay close by.

Easier: give each child their own digger and their own corner of the tray

Harder: add a road from the hole to the hill and drive the trucks along it