We walk through the Braid Valley Park almost every day on our way in to the shelter and back, and Audrey loves to play there - even when it's all water logged from the recent floods. Adorably, she likes to climb on the benches and sit on them like a grown up, or alternatively run back and forth on them as fast as her rather wobbly little legs will allow. She also loves jumping in puddles and investigating EVERYTHING.
As far as development exercises go, you can't get much more simple and fun than a two hour ramble through the park (yep, we were there for two hours yesterday - she slept well last night!). There's so much cool vocab. Bird, grass, water, tree, sky, ground, leaf, dog, flower. And all the running, climbing, jumping etc is great for the gross motor skills. Fine motor skills? Well, it's as easy as picking flowers, or posting twigs through the gaps in the bridge to watch them fall to the water below. And the sensory opportunities are endless - Can you hear the birds? What does the grass feel like today? Can you find something yellow?
We've been working on teaching Audrey some simple French (her first French word, unsurprisingly, was le chat) and the park also gives us lots of opportunities to practice the French words for English vocab she already knows well, like bird and dog and flower.
There are shapes to investigate, and a wealth of things to count, not to mention other children to talk to (a little boy told her a long story about how he lost his frisbee in the stream, and she listened very attentively as if she understood every word! It was so funny and sweet).
Here are some vids of Audrey Bea having a great time at the park:
In some ways she seems still so small, and in others such a grown up little girl already. Oh my, how much fun we have together.
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