Play Dough Cup Cake Party

One cold and frosty morning Pebble and I stayed in our PJs (surprise, surprise!) and played play dough. That’s a pretty normal morning, but this time we made our own cup cake birthday party.

It all started with an invitation to play:

I had no plans for the direction this play would take, I just put out the craft materials and followed Pebble’s lead.

“Let’s make cup cakes!” she said. So we did.

Pebble made a few cup cakes, with different colours and decorations. She chatted away about the rainbow cup cakes that we made together recently, connecting her real life experience with her play.

I joined in, responding to her chatter, and making my own little critter while I was there (who can resist play dough!?).

Of course, if you’ve got cup cakes, you’ve got to sing happy birthday, right?

First we sang to Pebble, then we sang to Mummy, then we sang to the little critter that I had made.

This was a lovely little play scene that captured Pebble’s imagination and creativity.

I’m no expert on invitations to play, but if you’d like to learn more about how to do it yourself you can check out these super play peeps:

- Creating Invitations to Play (The Imagination Tree)

- Elements for Creating Play Scenes and Invitation’s to Play (Childhood 101)

- Invitations to Play (Teach Preschool)

- LOTS of examples of play invitations (Learn with Play at Home)

Have you played today?