Although I've been making my own purees for J-jo, I find an occasional Gerber now and then is a real sanity saver. I discovered these rectangular packages and love to reuse the containers to store tiny things like beads and buttons.
I decided they would make the perfect baric containers. I took 5 empty containers. In the first, we put nothing. Then in the next four, we put in corn kernels, increasing the amount by one tablespoon for each container. Right now, Bear works with three of the 5. The empty one, the fullest one and the one in the middle. She grades them according to weight. She closes her eyes and I place a container in each hand and she tells me which is heavier then we line them up in order. I'm waiting for J-jo to eat a few more so I can make a match for each of the baric containers I just made. After I have all the containers, I'll get two different colored tapes to cover the containers so we can't see how much corn is in there.
If you don't have a baby at home, toddlers often like these mixed with plain yogurt. This is actually the reason I have so many Gerber jars collected - Bear is a yogurt fiend and especially likes it mixed with applesauce. As there are no Mott's applesauce cups in Costa Rica, I ended up buying her Gerbers. The good thing is that the yogurt that is already mixed with fruit has tons of sugar added to it, whereas Gerbers don't.
What a great idea!
ReplyDeleteI love it.
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of mixing the yogurt and apple sauce too. My son loves yogurt too, but he won't eat any with fruit, because he doesn't like the chunks, so mixing pureed fruit in the vanilla would be fun to try.
I love your yogurt and Gerber baby food idea. Sweet Pea loves fruit yogurt, but I hate to give her all that sugar. Sometimes I put a little bit of All Fruit jelly on it for her, but I'm going to buy some of the Gerber fruit now. Great idea!
ReplyDeleteThese containers are a great idea for storing! Thanks for this, I hadn't thought of it.
ReplyDeleteNow, if I could just get my Jesse to eat baby food so I can have an excuse to get the containers:-). So far, he is not liking it!
You are so super to do all that you do with your kids. Your posts, the activities you make/do/plan are over the top. I love reading your blog.