Acorns, the wooden wonderful kind

I just have to tell the Internet about our latest excitement and endless activity in our household– wooden ACORNS!  My little Ella has a knack for finding things to collect, be it her prized rock crayons, hair clips, or any other small choice items that I am SICK of picking up and putting back!  Aside from the constant rounding up of these small things, she always seems to choose the ones that are most nerve racking to find when in a rush, it was time to make some changes!!  It got me thinking about what I could give her with the sole intention of actually collecting and spreading about rather than put an end to her madness all together.  It had to be something I wouldn’t mind kicking about, but wouldn’t go far when I did, but also wouldn’t be a shocking hazard.  Wooden beads seem an obvious choice for little hands to collect but they don’t fit the bill and they freak me out.  Beads are too small and too perfectly round to get stuck in her mouth if she lost her senses and tried to eat them… she is still too young for me to trust her completely, and plus, because they are round there is no telling where they would end up after a good day of playing–err tripping.  The solution?  These wonderful lovelies from Casey’s Wood Products back east.  I remembered reading something about these a LONG while ago from SouleMama, so I can’t take credit entirely for the find, but I am sure glad to reap the benefits.

The idea worked brilliantly!  I purchased three dozen because it seemed like a nice number, but after all the playing, spreading, tea party and collecting that has gone on we could have easily have welcomed six dozen.  Maybe I will put in another order when their numbers start to dwindle in a few months.

What makes them perfect is that they don’t go very far when you stumble upon them, or when they get dropped/dumped on our hard floors all over the house.  They also are big enough for her to not be all that interested in putting them in her mouth, she has tried but decided that it wasn’t a good idea and I haven’t caught her since.  And of course they are perfectly safe, untreated raw wood so there is certainly nothing to worry about there.

So that’s us, that’s what we have been up too, playing tea/acorn party all the live long day and dumping them repeatedly inside and out.  FUN!  And the best part?  I don’t really care if they aren’t picked up, they are so cute, who would?

Oh, and the tea set.  I have been meaning to post about that too.  I found it on Etsy a while back, it is a little vintage set that I stumbled upon and was a steal of a price.

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