Sifting Flour

Bear loves to sift flour. Here is how I set up this activity:

In the first bowl there are some dried black beans. In a second bowl there is some flour. Bear pours the beans into the flour and moves the now empty first bowl to the right. She mixes the beans into the flour with a spoon. Next, she takes the sieve and, resting the sieve on the edge of a third bowl, spoons a spoonful or two of bean and flour mixture into it. Shaking her wrist, she sifts the flour into this bowl and is left with the beans, which she then pours back into the first bowl.

She cried when I said we had to put it away - that's how much she loves this activity!