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Pretend play ideas to encourage imaginative childhood! #imagination #ece #preschool

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baby bath station - happy hooligans

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Play dough spring garden - great for fine motor skills, and stimulating for imagination!

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Having fun with water beads! Great sensory activity for toddlers!

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Project rain - awesome sensory tub activity!

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Doctor's Imaginary Play

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Great preschool activity aimed at teaching kids about different animals and their foods!

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Pancakes for breakfast books and activities—and a healthy pancake recipe too!

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Play dough play. Homemade playdough gift idea + play dough jar label printable.

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The value of pretend play - and of joining in as parents!

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30 Elves and #Fairies craft. Getting all set for #Midsummer!

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What started out as pretend cooking, ended up being so much more...#thegoodlongroad

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Pioneer play - visit Little House on the Prairie

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We do a lot of pretending around here and rocks become trains. Paper clips become cars, etc.!

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The story of pretend play + pirate play ideas and books

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Very simple dress-up shoes for kids!

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"The Lorax" themed sensory bin with DIY Truffula trees

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Reuse old berry containers to make fun hand puppets!

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My Little Pony Small World Sensory Play...

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Pretend play- perfume concoctions. Imaginative play that appeals to the senses

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A Girl's Knight Shield - AWESOME!

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Goodness comes out of children's eclectic collections—why we think they are a good thing.

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Shoe Shop Dramatic Play- perfect for context-rich early maths and literacy skills!

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BRILILANT! DIY Elevator Buttons from toddlerapproved.com

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Marnie - Carrots Are Orange We did this one over the weekend! Quite a success! :-)

Create a small world play scene in a giant cardboard box!

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Lucilla That is so cute!

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ParentingExtra (Kids, Crafts and Fun!) I feel a godzilla moment coming on ;)

The most beautiful play is the inventive play of children who choose to imagine with toys in their own way. Caregivers can nurture this imaginative play by choosing open-ended playthings that allow for endless possibilities in pretend play. Share the joy of imaginative play with your children by making mindful choices when introducing new toys into your home.

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Great ideas on how to make playing with trains different...

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Simple beads, stones, and gems offer so many pretend and imaginative play moments—a few creative play ideas.

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Pretend play flower shop and garden centre using pots, seeds, silk flowers and mud play dough!

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make a twig and twine raft—bring twine and a pair of shears with you on your next pond or riverside hike.

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Puppets are great for pretend play and even better when you make them yourself.

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Nurture imagination with pretend play as your children turn rocks into trains (or whatever else they like to transform).

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scanning a book to check out at our homemade library.

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The small world made from egg cartons. Create these amazing accessories for your fairy garden or fairy world by using egg cartons.

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Pretend play... baby doll bath

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Laminated faces with dry erase markers. Maybe tape onto popsicle sticks for additional fun!

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Writing our own newspaper - you can keep them for when she's older.

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Building a fantasy play world based on story ideas from the child herself can be immensely satisfying for the child. This activity involved painting, building, ideation, storytelling and then connecting with nature by using it as a home for her 'finds'from nature! And ofcourse, we upcycled old cardboard boxes! www.mommy-labs.com

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We turned our changing table into a fun dress up station! Very inexpensive, and my daughter LOVES it!

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Jaimie Franchi This is very smart.

prince and princess ideas for all day imaginative play

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Pretend play cook-off with these Shaving foam cup cakes. Made in a minute or less@experimenting-mom

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ideas to organize children's toys

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The great pretender – why pretend play is so important

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