DS (37 months)
All of the above, plus
Sandpit play
Gardening (DS loves piling leaves on the garden, weeding, watering - sometimes just pretend watering, picking leaves and flowers).
Train sets (and building the city all around so we can deliver flour to the bakery, send the kids to kindy, shop, post letters).
Shopping (we have shopping lists of pictures for DS to collect and put in a bag)
Stamping
Cooking - pretend and real (made a fridge out of a cardboard box that gets well used)
Hide and seek
Gymnastics (there's a great class here for $5, casual)
Singing and making up rhymes
Building with Blocks
'Collecting' games and pictures - DS uses the things he's collected to sort into groups and make pictures. Shells, nuts, old sprinkler heads, coloured paper, buttons.
Sticky pictures.Put up a piece of contact, give DS a pile of 'stuff' and he can stick to his hearts' content! No mess, and we reuse a lot of stuff over and over. Pegs, buttons, paper, wool, ribbons, leaves, shells.
DS follows me around everywhere, so a lot of the time he helps me...unpack the dishwasher, peg clothes out, vacuum etc he's my peg boy/sock boy/kitchen hand etc
Sometimes you need a new take on the 'same old things'. Eg Mummy was very playdoughed out until I realised all the other things we could do with it that I hadn't done before....animal footprints (DS guesses which animal made the footprint); cupcake decorating with paper patty pans, old birthday candles, seeds, nuts, pom poms, ice cream sticks etc.
Off now, as DS has asked to play 'kitchen boy' this arvo, which works out great as we're having spaghetti Bol, so he'll help with that
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