Our first day playing with our water table, nearly three years ago, we knew it was going to bring years of fun.
We were not wrong.
As soon as the sun poked its head round the corner of the curtains this morning
Today was destined to be a day of water play
We unearthed the water table from it’s resting place
Beneath the Tuff Spot Dinosaur Swamp
Daddy scrubbed it for us
Two seasons worth of grot and grime
And then we filled it with water
We filled it with stars
And we played in the water
The stars sparkling in the sunshine
Glittering in the water
As they do in the sky
Esther and William were so excited
It was wonderful to take our water play outside
We had sieves and colanders
Fishing nets
Watering cans
Sea creature squirters
And bundles and bundles of imagination
Esther and William fished for stars
They splashed and squirted one another
Squealing with joy
They acted out scenes from Octonauts
They poured and filled and emptied and sprinkled
I love watching Esther and William play
They have always been water babies
And we have always experimented
With ways of extending and enhancing our play
Adding colour
Adding creatures
Adding flavours and smells
Adding context
Adding stars
The coloured stars in the water
Add a little interest to our play
It makes it clearer to see if a cup is empty or full
The stars glisten as the water pours
The stars can be collected
Can be counted and sorted
The stars add so many new things
To your basic water play
Esther and William played with the water all day
As the sun moved we moved
All the way round our garden
To keep the stars sparkling like diamonds
To keep our skin warmed by the sun
Today we had a wonderful day
Playing with the stars
It made me smile
To think that this is how Baby Tilda
Spends all of her days
Our beautiful star of the sea
This activity is one of ten that we are sharing to celebrate 10 years of Oliver Jeffers’ book How To Catch A Star
You can find more of our water play posts right here
The first one takes you to some very cute photos of Esther and William about to turn one!
Water Lotta Fun – water play at nearly one year old
Water Colour: Learning Through Play
Looks like W & E had great fun fishing for their stars today. Absolutely love the picture of Esther looking at William. There is such love between them. x x
How lovely to look back and see little baby Esther and William. It amazes me how well they seem to play together – my 2.5 yr old twin boys do nothing but fight over EVERYTHING and can rarely play together without chaos ensuing! xx
Looks magical 🙂
Goodness me E&W has nearly 1 year olds cannot believe how much they have changed! And great to see they haven’t lost their love for water play either. Adore this idea, Jennie. Using glitter stars in water play is so simple but works very well too. 🙂