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Search Results for: pretend play

Using Pretend Play to Teach Money Skills

January 20, 2017 by OneMommy

teaching money skills with pretend play -- simple math activity

  I remember when my daughter got her first play kitchen.  She spent hours serving me plastic food on tiny princess plates.  She thought she was just having fun, but I knew her pretend play was helping her develop language and social skills. Kids learn best when they are engaged and having fun.  Pretend play […]

Filed Under: Math Tagged With: counting, pretend play

Fairy Soup Pretend Play

May 16, 2014 by OneMommy

Making Fairy Soup -- perfect sensory play for spring!

    Warm weather means more time spent outdoors.  With all the spring flowers popping up, and the kids still being in fairy-mode from our first Tooth Fairy visit and making new fairy houses for the year, making Fairy Soup was the perfect pretend play activity this week.   I first saw the idea of […]

Filed Under: Sensory Play Tagged With: playing outside, pretend play, spring, water play

Pretend Play: Making Cookies

February 15, 2014 by OneMommy

Pretend Play: Making Cookies via There's Just One Mommy

    It’s been a while since we pulled out the play dough.  With the super cold temperatures we’ve had, it was the perfect time to get it out for some pretend play.  And what better use than to make some pretend play cookies for our Cardboard Box Sweet Shop?   I pulled out the […]

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: playdough, pretend play

Build Your Own Cardboard Castle Playhouse

February 25, 2016 by OneMommy

How to make your own cardboard castle playhouse

Snuggled up on bean bags inside its orange and yellow walls, I fell in love with books.  My kindergarten teacher had a cardboard castle set up as a reading area, and at the end of the school year, I was the lucky child that got to take that castle home.  It was dragged outside on […]

Filed Under: Kids Activities Tagged With: cardboard box craft, castle unit, pretend play, recycled craft

Sensory Play Inspired by the Movie Frozen

August 3, 2014 by OneMommy

Does your child love Disney's Frozen movie? This icy cold shaving cream sensory play is the perfect Frozen sensory play for kids.

Disney’s Frozen movie has become a fast favorite of many, including my very own 6 year-old.  After watching her have a blast with full-body shaving cream exploration last week, the wheels started turning in my head…and this inspired by Frozen Sensory Play idea was born! (Related post:  Sand Foam) Frozen Sensory Play Keeping with the Frozen theme, […]

Filed Under: Sensory Play Tagged With: ice play, shaving cream

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