Water beads - observing and reporting

Water beads have been used for sensory play for a few years now. I only just recently got some off eBay.

I didn't want Lumpy just to play with them. I wanted her to to watch the process - observe what was happening and report and discuss what was happening.

At 4 different stages she looked at the beads, told me what was changing and then did a drawing of what she saw.
before we started i asked her what she thought would happen "they will shrunk"

She really loved this activity!