Here’s a great collection of pretend play ideas!
Happy Handmade is bursting with colourful and imaginative crafts and DIY toys that are designed to add even more colour and creativity to your home. With easy-to-follow tutorials and free patterns and printables, you can read, make, and start playing today!
If you enjoy making, love recycling, and favour creative play and toys that encourage imagination and fun, Happy Handmade is the book for you! It’s a beautiful book that makes you want to start crafting straightaway. I love that the projects are all easily ‘do-able’ and use materials we already have at home, but also all have that special spark of creativity that makes them unique. And most of all I love how each project is a springboard into lots of fun, creative play.
The book is edited by Michelle McInerney, the creative force behind the wonderful MollyMoo website, and brings together projects from some of the best crafty bloggers around.
Join us for some active play today, as we head off on a treasure hunt, using these free, adaptable, printables.
Ditch the toys today and invite your children to get create with loose parts!
For day two of our at-home, screen free play ideas series, we’re looking at ice play.
It’s a great contrast to yesterday’s water play ideas and offers the opportunity for lots of exploring and discovering.
I see many frozen activities in our future! My daughter hasn’t even seen the whole film yet and she’s already hooked. Here’s her guide to making your own frozen ice palace, for lots of sensory play and imaginary storytelling.