Chess, bears, and light

Graham and Parker asked me a day long to play with the beedals aka water beads. They are starting to fall apart and break easily. I bought them on amazon instead of at the water bead website. Oh well they were still fun. Anyhow, I wanted to let them play with some old glass chess pieces I had first. I scraped off the paper and felt bottoms so that the light would shine through them. Some are clear and some are clear frosted. I don't have all of the pieces anymore but they had fun with them! They added a few of the counting/color sorting bears into the mix and had a "bear party". It was cute. :). Then they played with the water beads but unfortunately they fell to pieces, so now it's definitely time for new ones. They really enjoy their evening light table time though, that's for sure!