I tried that ice-skating tray idea I saw online — water in a tray, characters frozen into ice cubes, skating around. Super fun in theory… but honestly, the interest didn’t last very long here. What I did end up loving was what happened next. I was left with this really cool tray of ice, so I grabbed a magnetic cube and etched lines into the surface, then used my hand to erase them. Simple, quiet, and way more engaging than I expected. It turned into tracing, sensory input, and cause-and-effect a