{"id":899,"date":"2015-04-29T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/29\/little-tea-pot-tots-water-transfer-play-2\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:35","slug":"little-tea-pot-tots-water-transfer-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/little-tea-pot-tots-water-transfer-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Tea Pot Tots Water Transfer Play"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m a Little Teapot, short and stout…”<\/em> Hearing this nursery rhyme always takes me back to standing in a line with my infant school classmates, singing along and doing the silly actions. Can you remember all of the moves?<\/div>\n
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We are celebrating and sharing activity ideas for “I’m a Little Tea Pot” alongside our Rhyme Time buddies. For our activity I decided to put our little teapot to good use in a water transfer activity for my 3 year old daughter. We set up a \u201cLittle Tea Shop\u201d for some imaginative pretend play. It worked on my toddler\u2019s pouring skills and sneaked in some fine motor skills work.<\/p>\n

For lots more pretend play ideas check out our popular 85+ Ideas for Imaginative Play<\/a>\u00a0.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I had scheduled this activity for Monday morning whilst the boys were in school. We celebrated Bella\u2019s 3rd<\/sup> birthday on Sunday, so after a cake-filled day of over excitement and a later than normal bedtime, this activity was perfect to help calm those post-birthday blues (also known as a huge sugar crash!). It also gave me a chance to have a good sit down after my extra busy weekend.<\/div>\n
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How to set up a “My Little Tea Pot” Tea Shop<\/h2>\n

I laid out a table cloth and set out some pieces from Bella\u2019s\u00a0little tea set.
\nA little teapot
\n2 x cups and saucers
\nA spoon
\n\u201cSugar Cubes\u201d (dice)
\nGiant Tweezers
\nSmall Jug<\/p>\n

And had lots of towels on standby.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I filled a container with warm water and added a few drops of red food colouring, along with a couple of drops of lavender oil for added calm. If I was to repeat this activity, I would try infusing a chamomile tea bag in the water for a few minutes before starting the activity.<\/div>\n
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Bella then set to work as \u201cHead Tea Lady\u201d serving us lots of\u201ccups of tea\u201d. She happily transferred water from the jug into her little teapot, then poured it out into the cups for us to\u201cdrink\u201d. I wouldn\u2019t really recommend actually drinking this water. She started off doing a really neat job, which I was very impressed with (note how I said started here!).<\/p>\n

For more water play fun check out our Daisy Soup <\/a>activity.<\/em>\"pretend<\/a><\/p>\n

I asked for some sugar in one of my cups of tea. I had laid out a dice to use in place of a sugar cube, along with a pair of giant tweezers for her to use to pick up the dice and plop it into the cup of water. She did this and gave it a good mix together with her spoon and then used the spoon to take the dice out of the cup. I think she decided that I had had enough sugar at the party yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Bella then decided she had played nicely for far too long. She wanted more water to play with and she made a grab for the container I had filled earlier. Access to more water\u00a0obviously lead to some overzealous pouring and a few wet puddles on the table cloth and floor.\u00a0 She was having such a lovely time though filling, pouring and splashing and I was sat down with a real cup of tea by this point, so it was worth a bit of extra cleaning up\u00a0effort at the end of the activity.<\/div>\n
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Now it\u2019s time to pop over and see what activities my Rhyme Time buddies are sharing today:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tea Bag Sensory Sun<\/a>\u00a0from Adventures of Adam<\/div>\n
Tea Pot Craft with Free Printable<\/a> from Messy Little Monster<\/div>\n
Tea Pot Finger Print magnet<\/a> from Teach me Mommy
\nMake your own Tipping Teapot<\/a> from Danya Banya<\/div>\n

You might also like:<\/h3>\n

Fine Motor Tools Pom Pom Drop<\/a><\/h3>\n

An Invitation to Cut Fresh Flowers<\/a><\/h3>\n

Fantastic Farm Animal Arts and Crafts<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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