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Indoor Play Activity Ideas

Indoor Play

Indoor play activities are everywhere on the web, just hard to find. Even if you get outdoors this winter, you’ll no doubt be spending a bit more time indoors than usual.  Here’s some ideas and resources for indoor play: Imagination I already linked to this list from KaBOOM! on our Facebook page, but here it [...]

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Discovery Beach Game

Beach Discovery

Discovery Beach is the name for this game that’s part puzzle, part matching, and part ocean education. The game is self-contained in a box with clear plastic cover, hidden from view with 5 large puzzle pieces. The box hold tiny blue pellets the size of chocolate sprinkles spread over a mock ocean floor. Assorted ocean [...]

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Playing Board Games Without Rules

Playing Board Games

There is certainly a time and place for following rules and learning strategy. When two of the players are age 3 and under is not that time. Nope. That’s the time for “I’m green” and “I’m the pretty red.” A time for counting squares and making things up. Maybe the older sibling directs the action [...]

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Draw a Lego and Build

Lego Games

I’m obviously a big proponent of unstructured play. Kids are pretty good at making up stuff all on their own. A recent family vacation with the cousins, however, called for a few creative and semi-structured “re-directs.” My ploy involved a pile of Legos and the help of my sis and brother-in-law. We don’t go anywhere [...]

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Bean Bags Don’t Bounce

Bean Bags

For play indoors or outdoors . . . Substituting bean bags for balls makes for a lovely departure from the norm, for little kids into balls and throwing — or even big kids willing to test their accuracy skills. Buy or make your own bean bags (I could probably even manage – although I’m not [...]

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