If the weather cooperates, your little one will love being outside, playing with water all summer long. Adding a few toys and tongs helps them with their fine-motor skill development as they work to grab small objects and move them between buckets. Check out the tutorial from The Empowered Educator to see how it’s done.
Emily Westbrooks is a freelance writer and blogger from Maine. Based in Dublin, she's married to an Irishman and an adoptive mom to Maya and Noah. She writes about travel, parenting, adoption and fostering for sites like Romper and Moxie & Mabel, as well as for her own blog, From China Village.