Today I invited two of the mommy group members to my house to first experiment with how Addie did with people at her house and second to see how we fit. We live in an apartment right now and so inviting all of the mommys and kiddos might present a space issue at the house. Anyways, Addie did as expected, cried for the first few minutes of others playing with her toys, but then she got used to the idea a little. Once she started to play, she would watch each child and make sure she knew what they were playing with and that it was her toy, but she didn't attempt to take it and it didn't seem to make her upset anymore, so I guess that was good. By the end of the hour and a half, she was playing and running around with the others; overall I think it was a positive and good learning experience for Addie. Now second, the space issue; three adults and four children seemed tight to me, so I'm still not sure how it will work having the whole group over, but maybe on days where we know that others will not be able to make it, my house would be a possible solution. Enough room to play is important for kids and adults- not enough room and they are all on top of each other having a miserable time and if you're going through the effort to get yourself to a play-date or clean your house to have others over, you want the experience to be positive.
Now on to our small craft we did today; thanks again to Dr. Jean, we use colored water and marshmallows to make circles on paper. The kids like the activity and really liked it after when they got to eat the marshmallow, however, most did not want to eat the sopping wet marshmallow so we gave them another. This would be a great activity to introduce circles or create small and large circle with different sized marshmallows.
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