Glittering Muffins » Entries tagged with "pretend play"
Pretend play – Emergency services (E.M.T./doctor)
(Jan. 6, 2013) Nico loves the show Doc McStuffins (Docteur LaPeluche, we only get it in french) and since then we got him a medical suitcase with doc tools in them. Since he’s a single child we are his play partners and this time Alex and several plush were his patients. At first he examined Alex, listening to the heart, checking eyes & ears and temperature taking. After that he moved on into his “ambulance” … Read entire article »
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Pretend Play – door salesperson
(Jan 15, 2013) Nico wanted to play store shopping where he goes around with his cart and puts stuff in, comes back and pays at his till. My mother was upstairs and decided to turn it into a door sales person game. His house was the bathroom (no idea why, he picked it), he would close the door and my mother would knock and sell him a toy she got from his toys (a little … Read entire article »
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Square water beads!
You’ve seen them on every blog out there and kids love them. I was about to order some online when Alex found some in the dollar store garden aisle with the new summer stuff at the end of April. They had beads, but also cubes! Which I thought was pretty cool, so we took some of those too. Since the posts out there are all about beads I’m gonna share our cubes with you … Read entire article »
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Pretend play – play dough sausages
Back in mid march, Nico wanted me to make sausages with the play dough. After I did, he ran to his kitchen and started “cooking” them. He played for a good 30 minutes. Just cooking, seasoning, turning the sausage to cook even and plating over and over again. He even added some of his plastic eggs that crack open Love that he’s re-enacting how to cook from having done it with me for real … Read entire article »
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The great pretender – why pretend play is so important
Children are known to pretend play many of life’s every day situations and I know that there are many people out there who think that it is stupid, because it, to them, does not amount to anything, since there are no rules involved in the play and whatnot. Needless to say that the vast majority of these people either are far away from parenthood as I am from reciting “War & Piece” backwards in Kisuaheli, or if they are actually parents do not care or do not get it… In an earlier post in our “Thoughts” category I had referred to investing into your children and how important and easy it sometimes is to concentrate on the basics. If you look at your children, they are like a sponge, they absorb … Read entire article »
Pretend play – baking
If you have been following “Glittering Muffins”, you will have noticed a thing or two about Nico, one of which is a certain affinity towards cooking and baking. Nah, who am I kidding, the kids loves to cook and bake, real and pretend and ever since he was really little he always came back to this and the other day he showed an amazing display of focus and diligence in his quest for the perfect … Read entire article »
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