Growing Play
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Keep Life Simple – Go Hiking
Egg Drop Contest
This has been a tradition for the last several years in our family. It is loads of fun and great for kids of all ages. Object of the Contest: Create the strongest “nest” for your egg so that your egg remains intact after dropping it from different heights. How you Play: 1. Collect recycles: […]
Pretend Play Box – School
Pretend Play Box -School What’s Inside: Inside this box is a home made clipboard (cardboard, contact paper and binder clip), large index cards, pencil box (recycled watercolor container), ruler, protractor, paper clips, set of dice, pointer, stickers, dry erase marker, eraser, name jar (popsicle sticks inside recycled Parmesan cheese container), pom pom jar (collect one […]
Keep Life Simple – Pick Flowers
I Love Geocaching!
I just love geocaching. If you are not familiar with geocaching you basically go on treasure hunts to look for hidden canisters using a GPS device. We use an app on the iPhone to find our geocaches and log which ones we find. This last find on Friday was one of our best ever – […]
Pretend Play Box – Pet Show
Just got this done today. Not doing too good with my goal of organizing activities but at least I did get another pretend play box completed. Pretend Play Box – Pet Show What’s Inside: Inside this box is two small stuffed animals with jointed arms and legs, scraps of fabric, small brush, two balls, tiny […]
Keep Life Simple – Play Catch
FREE Spring Coupon Book
Download this FREE Spring Coupon book to encourage children to get moving and making memories. Great addition to an Easter basket. Download it at GrowingPlay.com Posted this over at FunFrugalMommy
Easter Egg Plinko
I got the inspiration for this activity from a Twitpic on Twitter. Basically we used a cardboard box opened up with the sides up. A child worked on pulling apart all the plastic easter eggs. We glued them down pressing hard to adhere each one. We added three slots to catch the ball at the […]
Pretend Play Boxes – Newborn Baby
I have officially decided I am going to try to organize some pretend play activities. One reason is to clean up our pretend play supplies and keep them together. The other reason is to be able to switch out toys easily. Therefore, my goal is to organize one pretend play box a week using stuff […]