Friday, January 27, 2012

Making Soup...and More Pretending

When my daughter was younger, I remember really looking forward to the day where she could pretend with me.  When I was working as a teacher, I was the teacher who would pass out strips of paper and say, "Let's figure out what it could be, what we could do with it!".  Sure, I got a lot of eye rolls, but I also got a lot of creative thinkers.  The art of pretending is really a skill that comes with age, and I would say that age for Olive was about 17 months.  Around that time was when she really started playing "pretend":  pouring tea for her dollies, eating imaginary food with a fork, driving a cardboard car, and more.

I love, love, love pretending with Olive for a lot of reasons, but 2 main reasons really:  1) When you pretend, you can go anywhere, be anyone, and do anything and 2) it doesn't cost anything.  Let's face it, if necessity is the mother of invention, than an empty wallet is the mother of pretend play.

One of Olive's favorite pretend things to do (and by favorite, I mean that it's an activity that she can focus on for more than 15 minutes) is "making soup".


Sprinkling some "spice" into her soup bowl.


Opening a pill box to retrieve some "ingredients" to add to the soup.


Of course, every good cook always tastes their food.


Making soup isn't the only way we pretend around our house.  Here are some other things we have that we pretend with:


  • Old corded telephone
  • Calculator
  • Table setting (place mat, plate, utensils, napkin, cup)
  • Dolls
  • Toy cars
  • Random plastic pieces
  • Scarves & hats
  • Teapot & teacups
Here's a short article I came across on the importance of play that I thought you might enjoy reading.

Olive and I hope you have a fun weekend filled with dancing like a bear, baking cookies in a shoebox, and having a phone conversation with a stuffed animal. :)

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