Toddler invitation to play

Have you ever spent hours preparing a beautiful invitation to play only for your child to play for approximately 6.35 seconds? Maybe you’ve spent a small fortune on beautiful open-ended toys for your child to show absolutely no interest. Or maybe you keep finding your toddler playing in the dogs water bowl or throwing their […]

This Foil Painting activity literally took me less than a couple of minutes to prep, requires a couple of plain old craft supplies and

Are you following us on Pinterest? Welcome to this week's TUESDAY TOTS. Brought to you by Learn with Play at home (that's us), Rainy Day Mum, and One Perfect Day This Week: Learn with Play at home is showcasing 8 Invitations to Play for toddlers (many suitable for babies too) These great posts all came from last weeks Tuesday Tots linkup where we featured 10 Quiet Activities for Kids What is an Invitation to Play? One of the easiest ways to keep your toddler busy and learning is with a great…

20+ Playdough Invitations to Play - Stay At Home Educator - playdough is a kid's best friend. Learn how to make the best playdough recipe without cream of tartar, then use it to create a playdough invitation to play. Playdough can also be the base of small world play, and has so many sensory play benefits. What can you do with playdough? Doo you have the right playdough recipe? This playdough recipe is no-cook and can be used for literally any playdough activity for preschoolers and…

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Okay, this was the biggest hit ever and I owe it all to our amazing super nanny Flor! Choosing to work full time and hiring a nanny is a big decision. It’s not for everybody, I know. For us, it has been truly amazing. Flor came to us via an agency and it has been […]

Chalk and water. What else could you dip chalk in? Milk? Liquid Starch?

We do A LOT of Invitations to Play around here. Some are great and some are not. Through trial and error, here are five simple invitations we love in our house. We hope you like them too. 1. Color Dropping – This first one is the most involved in terms of materials, but a quick trip […]

With Sam not feeling well earlier today, we decided to spend our afternoon close to home and out of the sun. I love setting little play invitations out for the kids to discover after school, but since I hadn’t gotten a chance to set something up during nap time, I quickly pulled together a classic…

Create a fun construction site invitation to play for preschoolers, kindergarteners and even bigger kids. Adding construction site vehicles to oobleck makes an amazing sensory and pretend play activity for any truck fan. Oobleck construction site sensory play Mandisa from Happy Toddler Playtime joins us today with a gloriously messy sensory play idea […]