Play invitations

Loose parts come in all different shapes, sizes and colors. They stimulate the imagination and develop fine motor skills in kids of all ages. Set up invitations to play and see the true beauty of childhood innocence come forth while kids explore their prompts.

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…

I have recently begun a new series on my Facebook page where I post one or two photos each day, and it has become very popular. These are pictures of the little Invitations to Play that I have set up for our girls in various places in our home. I’m hoping through this series to...Read More »

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 […]

A simple invitation to create Play-Doh Faces using left over craft supplies. Toddlers imagine and build Play-Doh creations.

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 […]

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…

Set up a cardboard cookie shop for your little ones to enjoy. It will give them hours of fun pretending, creating, and learning.

Little builders have so much fun with this Construction Site Play Dough Invitation. Hands-on sensory play & fine motor practice for toddlers & preschoolers.

Are you following us on Pinterest? Here is a fun construction building invitation to play that I set out to occupy my toddler (currently aged 2.5). The main components for this easy set-up activity are simply playdough and blocks. Making the playdough a grey colour to simulate concrete and providing a couple of little construction tools all added to the scene but aren't necessary to still have a fun and creative activity for kids of all ages. My kids loved this little bricklaying activity…