Our Creative Play Space

A peek inside a reader’s play space…

Belinda says, ” What I am choosing to share with you all is not so much the physical space itself in my home but what I do with it. I have a small home environment and 2 preschool children. It is what I put into the space for my children to play with that makes it creative and interesting and a joy for me to watch my children thrive in play. I use mostly inexpensive recycled and natural materials.

Nature Basket (pictured above): I have collected natural and interesting items from my back yard, parks, beaches and on nature walks and some shops – like gem stones, seed pods, shells, rocks, feathers etc and displayed them in a cane basket on a child-sized wooden table made by my husband. On this day I added safari animals and babushka dolls to extend the play. My children spent lengthy periods of time touching, sorting, describing, rearranging and engaging in imaginative play. Great for 1 child or 2.”

“This is a “city” created by my 4 year-old daughter. She used re-cycled cardboard boxes (which I collect), a variety of paint and pasting materials like coloured feathers, paper shapes, glitter etc all purchased from a 2 dollar shop. This project took three days before she declared it ‘complete.'”

Thank you Belinda for sharing your inspiring creative play ideas with us 🙂

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One Comment

  1. The nature basket is beautiful. I’m considering starting something similar for near our front door to house and display the kids’ discoveries when we are out and about.

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