Mooooon Sand

Often I take inspiration from a story and develop or discover a craft to accompany it, but sometimes this works the other way around. I am participating in Tara Lazar’s Storystorm for the month of January. This is a challenge to create 30 story ideas in 31 days. https://taralazar.com/2019/12/28/storystorm-2020-registration/ I find that when I leave myself open to them, story ideas are everywhere. Today there was one lurking in my toddler Messy Play class.

We started with reading Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle, but any favorite moon book will do. I quite like these.

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Then we made moon sand. In our dish washing tubs (reusable and only $1 a tub). The children combined 8 parts flour to 1 part baby oil and mixed with their hands. Then the playing commenced. Cups, scoops, playdough tools, and even barnyard animals went into the mix.

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That is when lightning struck. A Trip to the Mooooon or maybe Cock-A-Doodle-Moon. I am not sure yet, but I am sure that cows on the moon is going into my Storystorm list. If nothing else, it made me chuckle today.