Today L spent an hour in deep concentration at the play station I had set up for him after his nap.  I put out dried beans, dried pasta, lemon scented green water, paints, an empty milk jug with a funnel, and plenty of scoops and spoons.  I thought this would be a huge hit since he's way into scooping and pouring now, I was right!  The first thing he did was to grab a gravy spoon and scoop dried beans into the water bin.  He did that forever and I think it was his favorite thing haha.

He then grabbed a measuring cup and began experimenting with the water, he liked adding water to the muffin tin that the paint was in.

L is always challenging himself so he saw an opportunity and ran with it:  trying to spoon water into the milk jug.  Of course, he had to remove the funnel in order to get to the opening of the jug.  :P

After working a little more on scooping the beans he became interested in the paint!  He enjoyed painting the rock bed with his hand and mixing the colors together to see what happened.

We ended up with everything mixed together from scooping and dumping and it was a blast!  I think this has been his favorite play invitation yet!