My 3 yr old will tie one of my scarfs loosley around my 2yr olds neck, and pretend she's walking her doggy/pussy cat/lamb......
DD#3 will go in her room, shut the door, DD#2 will go in her room and shut the door...and they then pretend to go visiting...and knock on each others door and pretend its their home.....
DD is easily occupied in the backyard with a bucket, spade and the lemon tree. She walks around collecting all the lemons that have fallen off the tree, filling the bucket with them, balancing them on the spade, rolling them down her slide... She also like throwing them in the paddling pool and seeing how big she can make the splash!
When I am cooking she has a game where she stands next to me and plays with the salt and pepper shakers and herb jars that are on the bench. Usually they are a family and go out for a picnic on the teatowel
DD loves to put an old hand bag over her arm, a big floppy hat on, a pair of shoes and fill the washing basket with 'stuff' and push it round the house....she tells me she is going to the shops! This takes a good few hours.
We love water play....i have one of those high chairs your attach to the table and she will sit there for hours on the balcony with a few jugs of water and different jars, cups and pots and tip water from on place to another...then all over her self, perfect for a hot day!
Like i said in the other thread, cooking is the new fave thing....and she asks to do it every day, starting to run out of things to cook!!! We have a herb garden and we pick some herbs and then make a quiche or a pie or a cake...she likes to help measure, weigh, crack eggs...although i have to pick all the bits of shell out, and taste everything as it goes in! It so much fun, then we spend the next how ever long sitting at the oven door watching it!! then eating it ofcourse!
When its not too hot we make a den/cubby in the house with blankets etc, fill it with teddies and have lunch in there and read. When DP gets involved it tends to get a bit extream, last time our entire front room was a big tent, like a maze around the chairs and sofa with blankets, secret doors and teddies in all corners, took me hours to put back to normal, but was the best fun!
We tend to go out ALOT....we all get a bit cabin feverish if we stay home to much....DD loves to go to the super market so i tend to leave a few things off my list so we can go to the shops a few times a week. She likes to pick the fruit and stuff of the shelves.
DD loves her tea set.. makes everyone cakes and cups of tea asnd dinner, when im cooking she raids the draws and cooks aswell stealing boxes and jars out of the recycling bin lol
water is fun. the trampolene with some cars becomes fun for hours, picnics etc..
Silk scarves have provided the best play- they are sarongs for DD, wraps for dolly, bed linen, veils, wings, 'rivers' for DD to swim in- it goes on and on!
Also, DH picked up a roadside branch, sawed off pieces of diff sizes and sanded them. Well!! These have become people, plates and cups, playground equipment, animals, fences, chairs for small toys etc etc And completely free!
DD also loves her real (from the Salvos) muffin tins, cake tins, spoons, sieves etc in her sand pit.
My little one is only 9 months old but she's obsessed with the empty pawpaw ointment tub i washed out. She'd grab the full one and drop it on her face during change time so I saved an empty one for this purpose. After change time she'll roll it around the floor for a good 20 mins and then slug around after it. She also likes tea towels and will rub them against her face and pile her blocks into them like a sack.
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