These are something everyone gets in the mail at one point or another and wonders what to do with them. We feel bad throwing them away but we don't really want to store them because we may never need them. So now you have a use for packing peanuts.
I threw a bunch of jungle animals into the tub and covered them with the packing peanuts. Then I put an empty egg carton in the tub and let the girls go to town. At first they hunted for animals, then they discovered you can break the peanuts in half so the game turned into "breaking eggs" and putting the shells into the egg carton. Then they pretended they were tossing salad (which is the messy portion) but thankfully, unlike rice, packing peanuts are easy to pick back up and put into the tub.
You can put whatever you want into the tub with the packing peanuts. I'm sure kids can think of all sorts of crazy things to create. This is one of my favorite things in the tub so far. It held their attention well, was easy to clean up, and they were able to use their imaginations well.
