The play kitchen is BY FAR the most popular toy in our home. It has been played with every single day for the past 7 years. In time we have gotten extremely good at improvising and coming up with new ways to keep things interesting in our play kitchen. Today I want to share with you our list of non ...
Magical Animal Search and Rescue Pretend Play
Most kids love a bit of dramatic play and Miss Glitter (almost 7) is no exception. Any topic will do but when there are dragons, mermaids or other magical creatures involved, she'll happily go to that fantasy world of hers where unicorns rule. When we (finally! couldn't wait!) received our copy of ...
A 3 Year Old’s Guide to Epic Blanket Fort Building
Fort building is one of our go-to activities for just about anything. A blanket fort fixes everything. Now, my three year old has his own very specific ideas about life fort building. This is his story, and if you have your own threenager, these very practical guidelines to epic blanket fort ...
5 Imaginative Play Ideas using Carpet Samples
You might think I've completely lost it this time. Imaginative play using carpet samples? Really? Why, yes!! In fact, it's quite genius. They are lots of fun! And did I mention free? The play possibilities are endless here. Let me show you our 5 favourites. 5 Imaginative Play Ideas using ...
Searching for Spiders Dramatic Play Activity
Spiders are fun to play with all year around, though when Halloween is around the corner these little animals are close to irresistible. This spider dramatic play activity will be right up their alley. Get ready for some squealing! Searching for Spiders Dramatic Play The goal of this ...
Using Loose Parts to Make Pretend Play Cookies
The other day my 5 1/2 year old daughter was having one of her after school moods. "I don't know what to do!!!" She yells out at me. "How about you bake us some pretend play cookies in your kitchen?" I calmly suggest. "There's nothing for me to bake with ... and besides we're not allowed to ...
Make Your Own Embroidered Treasure Map
Children love treasure maps and going on the treasure hunt. What they possibly love even more is designing their own treasure map. We seem to be going through a phase where our treasure maps get used on a daily basis. So I decided to transfer a hand drawn treasure map to fabric and embroidering ...
Felt Chocolates for Pretend Play
I am Belgian, so it pretty much goes without saying that I love my chocolate. Everything you ever heard about Belgian chocolate is probably true: we have the best chocolate in the world, more variations of size, shape and taste than you can imagine and we consider it to be very normal to eat ...
How to Make Fairy Hair Braids for Pretend Play
"It's all fairies that hits the clock", as we would literally say in Belgium, meaning that we eat, sleep and breathe fairies nowadays. One afternoon my 4 year old daughter and I made these cute little fairy braids, which were inspired by our princess hair. These fairy braids are easy to make, ...
How to Make a Cardboard Sword for Kids and Dramatic Play
I have come to the conclusion the that a cardboard sword is a dress up box essential. Being surrounded by princess dresses and tutus, my daughter asked me for her sword the other day. A sword? We don't have swords. But she insisted she could never save her beloved bunny from the clutches of ...