FHE with young kids #12 -- Duplo Wise and Foolish Man

Wise Man and Foolish Man reenactment with Duplos. The red duplo base is the rock, and the carpet is the sand with a destroyed house on top of it

The meet of today's activity / lesson was singing The Wise Man and the Foolish Man, then discussing it. When we asked if it's better to build a house on a rock or on the sand, our three year old said "sand!". We talked about it for a while, then got the Duplos out.

I asked if rocks are hard or soft. They said hard. I asked if sand was hard or soft. They said soft. I asked if the big red duplo plate was hart or soft. They said hard. I asked if the carpet was hard or soft. They said soft.

Thus, we set up an analogy of the duplo base being a rock and the carpet being the sand. We had fun building a house on the carpet and the duplo base, and the kids had fun seeing how much easier it was to destroy the house on the sand.

It took a while to get the point across even still, when asking why the house on the carpet was easier to destroy. Eventually, our three year old really seemed to get it, however.

I think this one might stick!