A Week of Invitations to Play: Construction Site
Each day this week I’ll be sharing a new Invitation to Play. Yesterday I shared our Pasta and Playdough Invitation and today it’s all about the Construction Site. I don’t know about your little boys,...
View ArticleDuplo Houses and Roads
I had a rare night out with a friend last week. When I returned home, I found a little town set up in J’s playroom. My creative husband had made a bunch of houses out of Duplos and set them up on J’s...
View ArticleBuild a Fort!
I haven’t done a fort with J for well over a year. Seriously, what’s wrong with me? I LOVE forts. We’ve recently been trapped inside the house due to the cold, sickness, and not wanting to get Baby...
View ArticleHow We Play Friday: Shopping Pretend Play
J’s been really into pretend play lately and has been pretty much ignoring all my lovely invitations to play. I was a bit hurt at first and, as a blogger, I was a little lost about what to post since...
View ArticleColor Shape River
Like a lot of preschool boys, J doesn’t sit for anything. He’s always on the go, always moving. When it comes to doing anything educational, I know that I need to get his whole body involved. So, I...
View ArticleLearning Letters with Alphabet Soup
I’m not sure how the conversation got started, but my 3 year old, J, mentioned something the other day about someone making Alphabet Soup. So I asked him if he’d like to make some alphabet soup. Of...
View ArticleBuild a City
J has been obsessed with going downtown since we took a train there a few weeks ago. So, on an exceptionally rainy day, I decided that I needed to make him his own city. It was pretty simple really,...
View ArticleSnowy Railroad
For weeks and weeks, my son asked me for a snow covered train track. I kept pushing it off because all I could think of was shaving cream for snow. As much as we love playing with shaving cream...
View Article11 Ways to Build a Road
My 3 year old is always asking me to build him a road, and man have we built some roads. I’ve made them with chalk, on big sheets of paper, and even masking tape. I’m slowly running out of ideas, so...
View ArticleMake an Airplane Runway for Kids
The other day, out of the blue, my three year old son asked me to make him a runway for his airplanes. Really!? A runway? How was I going to make a runway? I took a minute to think, then it hit me....
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