I was recently asked how I get my kids to ‘just play’. “How do I get them to play independently, on their own, without wanting me to join in all the time?” I don’t think there is an easy answer for this. I don’t know any special activity or trick to getting kids to play […]
Imaginative Play – Why it’s Great for Parents!
In case you haven’t noticed, I really like imaginative play. Lucky for me, so do my kids! Kids learn so much from imaginative play. It is an holistic type of play, covering all areas of develop and allowing the child to focus on and learn whatever he or she is most interested in or ready […]
A Little Tub of Imagination.
It’s tough being four. It’s even tougher being four when you have two older sisters, and a baby brother, and no one ever lets you play the things you want to play. But sometimes it is good to be four. It’s good to be four when your sisters have gone to school and your brother […]
What To Do With a Big Box? – Make a Town
A recent delivery came in a big box! The was much excitement as the big kids and I surveyed the long, but shallow box and pondered what we could do with it. It wasn’t big enough for a cubby, and it was too big to make into a car. Then I had an idea… I […]
Playing Shop.
I remember the day we visited the girls’ kinder for the first time, just to see what it was like. They had a shop set up in the home corner area and immediately my just turned four year old girls made a beeline for it and stayed playing shop for the whole time we were […]
Dinos and Packaging – Wordless Wednesday
It seems I am not the only one excited by today’s delivery!
Tree House Doll’s House.
Inspired by Childhood101 and Irresistible Ideas we decided to make a tree house doll’s house as a gift for Morgan’s 4th birthday. We used Silver Birch branches and one big log of hardwood for the large rounds. We drilled and screwed the bigger support trunks to a pine board base and drilled and screwed the […]
Imaginative Play At Home.
A while back, I wrote an article for a friend, Pretend, Make Believe, Imagine, Play and Learn which was published on the Natural Parenting site. It was an easy article to write, it just kind of fell out of my fingers as they typed. It was easy because imaginative play is a topic I feel […]