Cling Wrap Aquarium (holiday activity)

Recipe for a Cling Wrap Aquarium

Ingredients:
-- one 2-and-a-half-year-old (with 2-and-a-half-year-old's imagination)
--one adult who is good with kids but sort of lazy (doesn't want to clean up water on the floor)
--some toy fish and sharks and stuff
--some big rocks and shells (optional)
--a colorful scarf (preferably blue/green color)
--plastic wrap

Arrange sea creatures, rocks, and shells on colored scarf or fabric (colored paper could also work). Remember from some old movie that giant squid likes to hide under rocks, and place him there, telling child authoritatively why you are doing so.

Cover everything with plastic wrap and pretend it's water (the child will believe you, if you believe it).

Sit back and hope the parents come home before the novelty of this activity wears off and the child panicks, thinking he is stuck with you forever.