Invitation to play toddler

Have you ever spent hours preparing a beautiful invitation to play only for your child to play for approximately 6.35 seconds? Maybe you’ve spent a small fortune on beautiful open-ended toys for your child to show absolutely no interest. Or maybe you keep finding your toddler playing in the dogs water bowl or throwing their […]

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…

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 […]

Try this simple sticky cutting tray invitation to play and find out why your kids don't need fancy or expensive activities to learn important skills.

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This Foil Painting activity literally took me less than a couple of minutes to prep, requires a couple of plain old craft supplies and

Why Morning Invitations? I started them because my children are early risers and I am sooo not a morning person. Morning invitations allowed us to: Start our morning slowly Start our morning quietly-ish Start our morning creatively (and often bookishly) What is a Morning Invitation So this slow, quiet, creative, bookish morning sounds nice, but […]

Toddlers explore problem-solving and hands-on learning through play with this simple toddler activity! Use supplies you already own for easy set up.

Okay, this was the biggest hit ever and I owe it all to our amazing super nanny Flor! Choosing to work full time and hiring a nanny is a big decision. It’s not for everybody, I know. For us, it has been truly amazing. Flor came to us via an agency and it has been […]

Create your own individual duck ponds with this play dough invitation.