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um...good idea except...make sure the kid doesn't swallow the pebbles! If they fit in the mouth of a bottle, they can be swallowed.

Yes - my daughter and I always refuse to let a pigeon drive the bus...

@ Enamorada - this project was obviously well-supervised.

I think her son is old enough to know not to swallow a pebble.

In enamorada's defense, being old enough to know not to do something and actually not doing it are often two different things with kids.

I think he advice was, obviously, meant to anyone with kids who might be thinking about doing the same thing.

I was hoping for more comments about what people did to bring books alive! We have read Dr. Suess's "Oobleck" and then made our version of Oobleck and played with it. (That's cornstarch and water and green food coloring). And we've read Robert McClosky's "Blueberries for Sal" while eating blueberries from small tin pails. My son's preschool read "The Gingerbread Man" and made a gingerbread man, and then he mysteriously disappeared from the cookie sheet and they had to go searching for him all around the block...good fun for the four-year-olds. Anyone else? I need some new good ideas!

My son's favorite toddler story was Gingerbread Man, one night, I hid a little gingerbread cookie in the book to run out when we reached that page. He wasn't that impressed, but when we made one, the transformation of the flat cookie dough to the puffly baked big gingerbread man made his jaw drop.