Archive for the ‘Pretend Play’ Category

DIY Cardboard Box Airplane

By on December 29, 2011   /   children, Pretend Play   /   1 Comment
DIY Cardboard Box Airplane

  I must say we had a great Holiday Season, surrounded by lots of family, (a little alcohol) and lots of good food. Now things are slowly going back to normal and the kids and I are always looking for fun things to do around here…which brings me to big, empty cardboard boxes!! Post-Holidays, once the gift-giving season is over, everyone ends up with lots of cardboard boxes. For some, they are just stuff that gets discarded, but in our home, we get excited with the possibilities (yes, they are endless). Most of the time we only have access to

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DIY Teepee Tent for the Kids Playroom

By on November 10, 2011   /   children, On the Web, Patterns and Tutorials, Pretend Play   /   3 Comments
DIY Teepee Tent for the Kids Playroom

I am one of the lucky moms whose kids have really good sleeping habits.  My mild sleep deprivation is not a side-effect of having young children, but the result of my own inability to go to bed at a decent time…(yeah, crafting seems to be addictive!).  In fact, ever since both of my kiddos were about 3 months old, they stared sleeping through the night, in their own room.  I always reinforced a strong bed time routine: dinner, some playtime, bath, story time, and (lights off) sleep time.  I think that one of the key factors that has really helped

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DIY Pretend Play Supermarket

By on November 4, 2011   /   children, On the Web, Patterns and Tutorials, Pretend Play   /   15 Comments
DIY Pretend Play Supermarket

I made this pretend play supermarket for my kids last spring.  I wanted to learn to work with wood and use power tools, so this seemed the perfect beginners project. This is a very quick and easy project specially because the main components of this pretend play supermarket are 2 ready-made Ikea shoe shelves and 2×4′s. The pretend play supermarket was a breeze  to put together, and was ready to open for business in a couple of hours.  What took the longest was stocking up the newly created Organic Market.  I didn’t really want any cheap plastic stuff in there,

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