PLAY IDEAS WIKI

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PLAY IDEAS

ART

Butterfly painting
• Cellophane paper collage
• Clay Play
• Bubblewrap Roller Painting
• Collage: easter egg shapes
• Finger painting prints
• Make trees from leaves

• Shaving foam play

• Spray painting

• Spray painting extended

• Stamping with the very young

• Storytelling Cards

CRAFT

• Bird Feeder
• Craft recipes - see Recipes

• collage with bottle caps

• Play dough - How to make - see Recipes
• South American Worry Dolls: muñecas quitapenas
• Starfish with template

EASTER

• Collage: decorating easter egg shapes
• Easter templates
• Easter matching rocks

IMAGINATION:

• Indoor picnic
• Playdough Pizza

INDOORS/ RAINY DAY PLAY:

• Book play
• Indoor picnic
• Make an instrument from tin cans
• Playdough Pizza

INSTRUMENTS

• Horn
• Make a simple reed instrument
• Musical bottle shakers

• shekere

• Tin can instruments

LITERACY

• Storytelling cards
• Book play

OUTDOORS 

• Bubble mix recipe

• feed the ducks

• Nature art inspired by Andy Goldsworthy

• Outdoor Painting

• Parachute Games

• Sand pit play

• Self directed play

RECIPES - make your own

• Body paint
• Bright chalk 
• Bubble mix
• Cornstarch Clay
• Finger paint
• Goop
• Papier Mache
• Play dough - microwaved
• Play dough - uncooked
• Puffy Paint
• Slime

SCIENCE

• Exploring Light, Shadow and Reflection

MULTICULTURAL

• Playdough Pizza
• Shekere: African instrument
• South American Worry Dolls: muñecas quitapenas

MISCELLANEOUS

• Blackboards
• Hammering for the very young
• Nature table
• Same toys, different ways

This list is collected from many places. If you would like to submit an idea it will be considered if:

1. We do not already have the same idea

2. It explains how to do the activity OR why (benefits of the activity)

3. It's especially good if we can include a photo of the activity.