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A strange new habitat has appeared in our playroom – what could it be? Secret surveillance cameras reveal signs of life – glimpses of the wild creatures inside. Special cameras attached to the animals allow us to penetrate deep into the burrow, where no adults may enter. The footage reveals that, . . . → Read More: Playing dens We’re enjoying the warm weather this week and the opportunity to play outside in the sunshine. As well as playing in their rock pool, the children have been cooking up sand pies and pebble cakes in their play kitchen. Do you have an outdoor cooking area for your kids? As you can see, ours was improvised by . . . → Read More: Kitchen role play ideas We had a great response to our posts about treasure baskets for babies and shoebox play, so I thought I’d look at another everyday item that makes a great un-toy: clothes pegs. Here’s how my children love to play with clothes pegs – and we’d love the hear some more ideas from you. A bowl of soapy . . . → Read More: Playing with pegs It’s all about weddings at the moment. I don’t think L knows there’s a royal wedding on the way but maybe it’s just a case of love in the air because all of a sudden she wants to wear a wedding costume and dress up as a bride. And every bride needs some flowers right? Here’s . . . → Read More: How to make a wedding bouquet Do your children love dressing up? Along with building dens, dressing up is one of our all time favourite ways to play. I wonder just why children find dressing up so much fun? I think perhaps it makes their play come to life even more if they’re kitted out in the right costume . . . → Read More: Dressing up ideas Yesterday we were printing with potatoes but there are lots of other ways you can play with them too. How about some cooking and mashing fun? We set up a low table with lots of kitchen equipment and just explored. We had no plan other than to investigate the potatoes and see what . . . → Read More: Messy play with potatoes  |
   
                    
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