Motivated by Fake Fruit

For a couple weeks Clara has been close enough to crawling that she's spent a lot of her time being frustrated.  She can tell it's close to happening, but she can't quite make her limbs move in the right way to make it happen, so she'll sometimes just start crying out of frustration.  Recently, though, she's started to scooch forward.  She loves the apples from Joshua's felt playhouse, so as a way to help her improve her crawling skills, I put one of the felt apples on the ground in front of her.  I did something similar with Joshua when he was at that point by using one of his bottles, but he was much more motivated by food that she is.  She saw the apple, wanted it, and crawled right over to it, and then happily chewed on it for awhile, enjoying her prize