Homemade tabletop "sandbox" kits

Dana posted her most recent brilliant hack at Mombian: creating indoor "sandboxes" filled with cornmeal or matzo meal.

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[Chakolate]

My autistic 6-year-old grandson has a rice box - a bin filled with 25 pounds of uncooked rice. One thing we learned very quickly is that if you're going to let a child play with a sand substitute indoors you'd better put a sheet under it.

[mountainbunny]

I used rice with my oldest two daughters, too. It seems cleaner than corn meal might be, but I really dont know.
If you are really ambitious, you can make the rice rainbow colored by dyeing some of it different shades with a bit of food coloring & mixing it back in with the white when it is dried.
As a bonus, a very large sack of rice is pretty darned cheap.

[Adrienne]

A very resourceful mom friend made a rice table for her kitchen by installing legs on a mid-sized Rubbermaid container.

She found the rice easy to clean up when it strayed from the box.

The only day she had a problem was the day her son ran into the living room, dripping rice grains with each step, and said, "Look, Mom- it was snowing." She found the tub empty and rice everywhere.

Event then, the cleanup wasn't too on the kitchen's hard floors.

[Marykz]

A friend of ours used unpopped popcorn kernels for the smaller set (2-3 y o) it was easier for them to hold/ pour/ cleanup. Then, Popcorn!

[Surseidette]

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