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Pretend Food: Salad Bowl in Summer Charm

My girls love to play kitchen and restaurant. They pretend to have customers and to be “cookers” as my three year old calls it while my six year old corrects her. They have a well stocked inventory filled with anything a doll or teddy bear could want. Who can get enough wooden cookies or stuffed chicken legs? Apparently, a few dollies had enough and wanted a greener fair served to them. Perhaps they were gaining too much stuffing from all the felt sweets and high stuffed foods. So they traded in their plate of wooden cookies for a bowl of … Continue reading →

Puppets Made from Wooden Spoons

Retelling a story is a fantastic way to teach a preschooler sequencing and practice memory skills. One way to make this time more fun is to plan a puppet show. Children love puppet shows and this activity will allow them a chance to design a puppet and be the puppeteer. Supplies: Wooden spoons Tacky glue Google eyes Yarn Fabric (pieces of fabric, pieces from old clothing, or even felt) Permanent markers Instructions: Decide what type of puppet you will make. Use the yarn as hair or adornments. The fabric will be for the clothing. Make this simply by just cutting … Continue reading →

Food Play: Haba’s Pretend Food Toys

It’s okay to play with your food. Especially if that food is pretend food. No mess or worries of a kitchen disaster made my little hands. HABA is a toy manufacturer whose endless supply of imagination sparkers and creative toys will keep children engaged for hours. Now you can find brand new pretend food to keep your little chefs busy. The Food Sets: Grill Set Sizzle: From personal experience I can tell you this is adorable. The little grill has kept my three year very happy grilling away even on a rainy day. The set comes with a steak, little … Continue reading →

The Time for Costumes is Quickly Approaching

The time for costumes is quickly approaching for those who partake in Halloween. Soon everyone will be looking for the latest Halloween costumes for kids. It is hard to plan too far ahead since children are always changing their minds. Yet if you wait too long the costume you child is dreaming of will be out of stock. A better strategy is to look online for costumes. While it does happen that stock runs out online at times you will at least not have to wait in line or search through dozens of costumes only to find the size you … Continue reading →

Dramatic Play: Aeromax My 1st Career Gear

Children love to role play. Having spent a lot time around children through having my own daycare to having children to teaching Sunday school, I know that once you bring out the dress up boxes or pretend boxes you will have children engaged in play. Children are always trying to be like the adults around them. They see a certain magic in the world of grownups. Being unaware of bills and stress all they see is adults doing very cool things like fixing boo boos, putting out fires, or baking cakes. Meshing these ideas together into a day of dramatic … Continue reading →