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Small World Play: The Park in the Snow!

January 20, 2011 by Anna Ranson

This week we made a little small world play scene using some play figures, trees, a slide and some wooden blocks. It quickly became the park, according to Cakie, and to make it more fun and tactile I sprayed some shaving foam over it to become a snowy day! I folded a piece of tin foil and put it at the bottom of the tray to become an icy pond for the little people to go skating on.
Cakie thought this was just wonderful and spent a lot of time pushing the people into the snow from the blocks and whooshing them into snow drifts down the slide!

 Winnie the Pooh made it into the park too and was buried in snow at one point, which caused much hilarity.

 “Dis is FUN Mummy!”

 She played with this small world scene for longer than the construction site last week, probably because of the messy play element and also because we had all that snow before Christmas and so that was fresh in her mind. She did seem to believe it was real snow, which was quite amusing, but not so when she tried to eat it. I did warn her it wouldn’t taste nice!

 “Little boy go skatin on da pond.”

 What’s so lovely about shaving foam is that it is really easy and nice to clean up and leaves everything clean and smelling lovely afterwards! I do recommend keeping a big towel nearby for wiping foam off hands (and faces!) before they touch furniture etc.

The next morning she went straight downstairs in her PJs and found the garden tray, started lugging it upstairs and saying “time for more snow now Mummy?!” So I guess she enjoyed it a lot.

Tomorrow I will post the lovely art that we made from the left over foam before we washed it up.

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Filed Under: Creativity, Imaginative Play, Role Play, Small World Tagged With: Role-Play, Small World Play

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Comments

  1. Lots of Fun with My FaMiLy says

    January 23, 2011 at 4:21 pm

    Aww! How Sweet!
    I love how your cute idea just kept getting bigger and better.
    I’m glad I found you at No Time for Flash Cards Link and Share today!
    I’m your newest follower,
    Tish
    http://lotsoffunwithmyfamily.blogspot.com/2011/01/roundabouts-cupcake-sleeves-rock.html

  2. Abbie says

    January 23, 2011 at 4:40 pm

    That is adorable. Love all your foam play. Very creative.

  3. Rebecca says

    January 24, 2011 at 4:30 am

    Awww, such a cute idea!

  4. Jackie H. says

    January 25, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    Love the foam snow! And you’re right it would clean your toys very nicely… hmmm, kill 2 birds with one stone!

  5. Martianne says

    January 25, 2011 at 11:16 pm

    We did a similar thing recently ( at http://traininghappyhearts.blogspot.com/2011/01/wearing-spd-lenses-snow-sculptures-with.html ) and have a post coming TH abut adding real ice to it. Such fun!

  6. RedTedArt says

    January 26, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    Oh my! You are fun! This is brilliant! Bet you had a really good afternoon!

    Thank you for linking up another fun idea!!!

    Maggy

  7. Cathy James says

    January 26, 2011 at 7:41 pm

    Your little scene looks so inviting – who could resist?!

  8. SnoopyGirl says

    January 28, 2011 at 5:04 pm

    What a wonderful idea! My kids are a bit older, but I think they would enjoy this too. Maybe I could make some action heros in the snow for my son. Thanks for sharing!

  9. Anna @ The Imagination Tree says

    January 30, 2011 at 4:49 pm

    Ooo yes action figures in the snow would be super cool!

  10. Raising a Happy Child says

    March 1, 2011 at 5:14 pm

    I love this idea – this is a perfect miniworld!

  11. Aussie Mum says

    March 8, 2011 at 6:53 am

    Oh that looks like great fun. I will have to try this with my boys.

  12. Eilidh Giraffe says

    November 27, 2012 at 8:23 am

    will be trying this!!

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