Setting up an invitation to play for my kids is fun, it can be a great learning tool, and it encourages independent play, but if it takes too long to organise then it kinda defeats the purpose. If I’m after a little time to do other things I want to set up an activity that […]
20 Perfect Peg Dolls!
I’m having a little love affaird with peg dolls at the moment. We have a plain wooden set and I love the simplicity of them and how they can become any character my kids want them to be. But I’ve also been eyeing of some of the other amazing peg dolls sets over on Etsy, […]
Snow Slope Winter Small World Play Idea
This snow slope small world play idea is easy to set up and a fun way to enjoy some winter sensory play and encourage your kids imaginations! Even if you don’t have snow where you live, this simple winter small world play set up uses a few items you probably already have at home and […]
Post Office Play – Free Printable Play Set
The kids will love writing letters and delivering them with this fun free printable post office set. It’s so much fun to get a real letter in your letter box! My kids got a postcard from a relative the other day and that sparked lots of conversation about letters and how they get from one […]
Dino Slime!
I love setting up fun little play-scapes for Noah. At four and a half he is just bursting with subjects that he is interested in and it’s easy to grab one of those ideas and create an invitation for independent play. But as much as I love it, I don’t want to spend hours setting […]
Christmas Imaginative Play
Noah’s obsession with all things Christmas continues. He recently discovered that our Christmas tree was not real, and he was quite disappointed. He has asked about ‘real’ Christmas tress almost every day since, so today I took him to see a real Christmas tree… one of the enormous pine trees that grow in a forest […]
A Castle Story – Imaginative Play in Action
This post includes sponsored links from Entropy, check the end of this post for a great giveaway. The Castle Story By Noah – aged 4. Once upon a time there was a castle. In front of the castle there was a big forest, at the edge of the forest there was a river, and after […]
More Printable Imaginative Play Mats!
We’ve had so much fun playing with the first two printable imaginative play mats that I created, and so many of you have told me all the fun ways you have used them and given me some great ideas for some new play mats, so here you go – here are two new printable imaginative […]