Oh! Oh!!
I just remembered something that I did at that age that DD loved.
I got a LARGE plastic under-bed storage box, and I put about 30 lbs of split peas in it. No way was I having a sand table in the house. I'd already seen what she was capable of. LOL.
Our only rules were that the peas had to stay in the box (well, okay-- ROUGHLY-- the box was used in the kitchen where it was easy to clean them up), and that the peas DID NOT GO INTO BODY CAVITIES.
She learned that I meant that one when she pushed the boundary a couple of times and I simply picked her up, put the lid on the box, and put it away. Hey-- the thing weighed too much for her to drag it out. HA.
She loved to sit in the box and POUR the split peas into plastic containers, through a funnel, etc.
GREAT rainy-day activity when I thought I'd lose my mind.
