As Fun As A Box Of Rocks

Here is a little activity Dotty (1yr) discovered while playing in her sister's room.  Grace (5) keeps some special rocks in an empty wipe container.  The rocks are ones she found and then a friend of hers polished for her in his rock tumbler.  ( I was pretty amazed they were the same rocks when he gave them back!)  Dotty likes to take the rocks out one by one and them put them back in through the slot at the top of the box.  It involves nature and recycling, reflecting you don't need to spend much money on children's activities.

Grace uses the same materials with the addition of magnifying glass and the book 'Let's Go Rock Collecting' to sort and identify her rocks.