Airpack activity
A friend sent three magnadoodles to my kids for christmas. According to wisdom only known to those in the packing room at Amazon.com instead of packing all three into one huge box, each magnadoodle was packed individually in it’s own huge box with a ream of airpack bubbles. I checked, each of these boxes could have fit FOUR magnadoodles. In the christmas rush I shoved these boxes and their surfeit of packaging to the side and forgot about them. Today my Gleek discovered them and there was glee.
Gleek carefully ripped each bubble pack from the others and strewed them all over the family room. Then she and Patches stomped on these little plastic pillows to make them pop. They weren’t very good at it and they aren’t very heavy, so often the airpack pillow would squirt out from under their feet and they’d land on their bottoms. giggles. Then they took to popping the airpacks with plastic pickup stick swords. giggles. Then they piled all the non-flat airpack pillows into one of the huge boxes and played “baby.” I would never let a child sleep in a box full of plastic bags, but they thought it was great. even more giggles. In all they played with the airpack pillows for a full 90 minutes.
You know right on those airpack things it clearly states “This is not a toy.” I suppose I could be considered an awful mother for allowing my kids to play with them. But, honestly, they are in more danger in the bathtub than they are playing with airpack pillows. I don’t let them bathe unsupervised and I don’t let them play with airpacks unsupervised either. And in both cases once the play is done the potentially dangerous item (water or plastic bags) is quickly disposed of.
Toward the end of the play NotMyBaby woke up from his nap. NMB is in that stage where he chews on everything. Plastic bags are definitely unsafe to chew, so NMB never even got his hands on one. I took scissors, popped all the remaining inflated ones and pitched them all into the recycling bin. The box got to stick around and be played with.