Sometime during the never ending heat of the summer I remembered an idea I had read online forever ago, an indoor rice box. This idea was to get through the long, cold winter. Since we don’t have those I thought I could use the idea to get through the long, ridiculously hot summer. Rice is better than sand for at least two reason, eating it not so bad and easier to clean up. Yes the boys still make a giant mess and it goes every where, but not nearly as bad as sand would. All you need is a tote with a lid, under the bed sizes work great, and rice. I bought one of the giant bags from Sam’s Club. The boys like making an mess and it gives them something different to do.
They have lots of options:
eating the rice box toys,
playing with the rice in or out of the box,
and swimming in the rice,
not pictured, splashing in the rice, lots of fun for the boys and very messy!