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.
I mentioned in the other thread that DD has been playing with a cardbox quite a lot recently. Today, she was sat in it with her 4 night time teddies for ages.
She's beginning to get into the tea set and ideas of tea parties, and she loves the blocks/duplo - in fact, I think the duplo is one of her most requested toys.
She loves play dough - I have a great home made recipe, which keeps really well.
I haven't tried cooking or craft yet, but probably will before long. Love some of the ideas from the slightly older toddlers!
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