Once your child is old enough to stop swallowing anything that fits in his mouth, he may enjoy playing with a jar of buttons. You may be lucky enough to have people in your family who have saved buttons over the years, and to be able to get these buttons for your child. I am told that people also sell quantities of buttons cheap on ebay. Kids of a certain age enjoy pouring buttons from one container to another, sorting the buttons by color, size, or shape, or arranging them in patterns. There's even a book about this activity,Grandma's Button Box
by Linda Williams Aber and Page Eastburn O'Rourke, which is part of the Math Matters series-fun books for kids that tell about mathematical concepts.
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