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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,...

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Duplo 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...

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Build 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...

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How 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...

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Color 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...

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Learning 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...

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Build 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,...

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Snowy 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...

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11 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...

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Make 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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