DD (1 year) has just started nursery and every week they do some different "messy play". This week it's a pile of whipped cream on the table for them to play with. DD is apparently 'a bit unsure' about it (no surprise to me - hates her hands being dirty) and although the nursery was just observing rather than being critical, they told me that some children love getting their hands into it and then licking their fingers.
I'm genuinely interested at the point of this from a developmental view (eg should I be encouraging DD to explore things like this more?) - it's just that I'm struggling with the knock on effect to other things - in the overall scheme of things, there'll be many more occasions that I'd rather she didn't rub her hands in something and then lick her fingers (eg if she'd been sick - or worse!!) so overall how is the messy play helping her??
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"Messy play" - why??
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warbler · 12/02/2008 08:59
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