So Desmond loves to carry things around in buckets and baskets and whatever else he can find to carry them in. So we have been keeping an eye out for a hard sided lunchbox for him for awhile. We figured with back to school stuff we should be able to find one. It seems like everywhere only sell the soft sided ones these days though so we didn’t find one at either Target or the grocery store.

We did go to Joanne’s though since I needed to get him some craft supplies, and we found the perfect case for him. The only issue it was pure white, waiting to be decorated. So our project the next morning, the morning after the day in the life post actually, was to decorate it.

I helped him a bit, and put his name in stickers on it, so that he would know it was his. He decided where he wanted everything to go though and put most of the stickers on all by himself. He had a lot of fun doing this project and loves his box.

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So one of the things I’ve made for Desmond to play with is a container filled with beans. We started with a small container and just lima beans. He had another container he could transfer them to and a set of measuring cups to use as well. He really likes playing with it for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. I have since made the container bigger and put in more and different varieties of beans so it is more of a small sensory table. Here are a bunch of pictures of him playing with it the first time I gave him just the lima beans and measuring cups. He really liked dumping them on the floor when he was done. Fortunately he doesn’t do that with the larger set up!

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So last week I got out the finger paints so that Desmond could play with them. He tends to wake up in the morning about 2 to 3 hours before Eloise at the moment, so letting him do various arts and crafts then makes sense. Anyways he really enjoyed finger painting a lot and insisted on doing it again the following day. He likes to put his hands in the paint and then smush them on the paper making little hand prints.

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