Imagination Play

Stimulate your child's imagination with these creative play activities, and learn how to foster good playing habits. Visit the Activities Center for more fun and games!

Examining Children's Play
Learn how to foster good playing habits in your child.
Rethinking Children's Play
Play at Different Ages and Developmental Stages
Expert Advice on Kids at Play
Read how the experts would handle these common playtime concerns.
"My daughter can be very exhausting, but I don't want to stunt her imagination or growth. Do you have any advice?"
"My daughter has many imaginary friends. Is this normal or should I fear some kind of multiple personality?"
"Should we be worried that our son's pretend play with weapons will lead to more violent behavior?"
"What is the importance of games and toys in the development of children?"
Creative Play Activities
Use these activities to enhance your child's imagination.
Adventure Treks
Aquarium Terrarium
Bag Skit
Bear Hospital
Body Sculpting
Bridges and Tunnels
Bubble Art
Build an Edible Bridge
Create Your Own Circus
Create a Puppet Drama
Creature Dinner Party
Desert Island Survival
Earth to Space
Elastic Shapes
Elephant Stomp
Foodcaster
Fossils
Gimme Shelter
Godzilla Returns (Again)
Great Magician
Growing and Shrinking
Historical Tour
If Toys Could Dance
Intergalactic Interview
Laughing Hands
Magical Butterfly Garden
Magical Mystery Machine
Magic Waxed-Paper Pictures
Make-Believe on the Range
Making Music
Mime
Money in the Bank
Nature Prints
Newspaper Dance
Nightlife
No Countries
On the Island
One-Inch Adventures
Painted Nature Pictures
Personal Memento Museum
Quick Mimes
Repealing Newton's Law
Room Within A Room
Sand Sculptures
Sensational Salon
Shadow Play
Silly Sentence Skit
Smiling Violations
Soup Scuba Diving
Space Dance
Spaghetti Dance
Story Line Game
Stuffed-Animal Patrons
Superior Supermarket
Surviving the Stone Age
Tightrope Walker
Tiny Town
Tube Heads
Utensil Puppet Show
What a Character!
Who Knows What Fun Lurks...
Window Painting
Visualization Game
Zany Television Time
All About People
A Matter of Place
Animal Gifts
Animal Restaurants
Bank on It
Combo Inventions
Do-It-Yourself "Ologies"
Fancy Duds of the Future
Fifteen Minutes
Great Entertaining
Hole Story
If Pickles Could Talk
Instant Lecture Series
Inventions We'd Rather Not See
Keeper of the Zoo
Left-and-Right Switcharoo
Make a Sentence
Mouse-Eye View
Pay by the Word
Perfectly Silly
Presidential Mixer Party Game
Marvelous Menus
Spin the Globe
Spinners
Three, Two, One...
Toy Tales
When I Grow Up
Wise Animals

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