rice bucket

Considering how much fun Kyalo had on the beach in Ocean City, my mom thought it would be a great idea to get Kyalo a rice bucket that he could play with. She envisioned him happily pouring the rice from one container to another, letting it fall through his hands, etc, for many hours of uninterrupted fun. 

Not exactly.

I will say this, though.  The rice bucket DID provide good entertainment for Kyalo three ways:  playing with it & dumping it on the floor, then spreading the rice further out on the floor, and then watching me clean it all up.

 do you see the rice everywhere?

Sigh.

I even moved the party to our back yard, but that just resulted in him dumping the rice on the ground and then picking up handfuls of rice and dirt and eating it.  Yuck.

We're sticking with cleaner (and cooler!) activities like playing with ice cubes for now.