Browse all our play ideas below, categorised into active, baby, creative and imaginative play.

Active
 
Alphabet Hunt
Apple bobbing
BATHTIME SPRING CLEAN
Bad eggs
Bathtime
Bike rides
Bonkers for Conkers
Boxing day picnic
Broomstick Racing
Bug rummaging
Bumblebees
Bunny hop
Catching Wishes
Christmas card jigsaws
Clueby-dooby-doo
Cuckoos and Cockerels
Cupboard Love
EASTER EGG BOWLS
EGG THROWING
Egg hunting
Egg rolling
Family disco
Fifteen to one
Fill 'em up
Fir cones
Follow my leader
Garden obstacle course
Grandmother's footsteps
Grandpa's sixpence
Hands down
Hide and seek
High jump
Hot chocolate
Hunt the shoe
Ice relay
Jumps
Land the feather
Laughing balloon
Leap frog
Making a den
Matchbox squeeze
Mistletoe race
Nifty Nature Trails
Number click
POND LIFE
Pan bashing
Pebble football
Penguin Race
Pick a stick
Pin the star on the tree
Puddle jumping
R&T
Rockin' robin
Roll over rabbit
Rug Roll
Simon Says
Skippity skip
Slappers
Snap snap oink oink
Snowtime
Soft play toy hunt
Spies
Straw and tissue race
TEATIME RACES
TRENCH JUMP
Table football
The Chore Jar
Tickly monster
Toddler's delight
Toy slide
Treasure hunts
Walkie talkie
Wall war
Washing up bowl
Welly wanging
Whacky races
What's the time, Mr Wolf?
Wink murder
Woodland Leaf Monster
Baby
 
Bash bash bash
Bath balls
Blowing raspberries
Book time
Funny Faces
Look smile and talk
MOTORBIKE RIDES WITH DAD
Mirror mirror
Peepo
Post box
Pushchair pleasures
Scrumply paper
Sing a song
Sock show
Sofa cushion scrumble
TORCH SHOW
Tumbling towers
Unusual things
Warm water kick around
What noise does my nose make?
Where are my toes?
Which hand?
textures
Creative
 
Advent calendar
Baby chicks
Baby lambs
Beetle
Big box
Birds' nests
Birds' nests
Biscuits
Butterflies
CARROT HEADS
Cake
Cat walk
Catalogue Collage
Cheesy biscuits
Chocolate crispies
Consequences
Cops and robbers
Cracker hats
Crayontastic
DAFFODIL CARD
Daisy chains
Dear diary
Easter biscuits
Easter bonnets
Egg decorating
FINGER MASTERPIECE
FLOWER COLLAGE
FRUITY BUNNY
Fairy houses
Flower pressing
Garden Centre and Planting
Ghost Lollies
Hand shadows
Homemade band
Jelly Surprise
Ladybird gardens
Leaf collages
Leaf rubbing
Make a pomander
Making a book
Making a tape
Mashed Potato Play
Mince pies
Mud pies
Mud pies
Napkin rings
Newspaper cut outs
Noughts and crosses
Paper Plate Masks
Paper aeroplanes
Passport To Anywhere
Pasta necklaces
Peppermint creams
Perfume making
Photo frame
Pitta pan bread
Popcorn
Potato people
Potions
RAIN PICTURES
Rain orchestra
Saltdough candysticks
Sculpture cupboard
Secret messages
Shell Fish
Sit still mummy
Snipper snappers
Snow flakes
Space pictures
Sparkly tree cards
Spider Snacks
Stained-glass Leaves
Start with a splodge
Start with a squiggle
Thoop!
Tickling Rug
Toy train
WIND STREAMER
Wet splash and find
Witchy Wizard Hat
Wrap The Mummy (or Daddy)
Wrapping paper
Imaginative
 
Abracadabra
All I want for Christmas
At the Post Office
Back to school
Ballet at home
Can you be quiet for just one minute
Car drumming
Carry on karaoke
Chamber of Horrors
Chinese whispers
Cups and knick knacks
Ding dong splat
Doctors and nurses
Dressing up box
Easter bunnies
Family air guitar
Feely tights
Fortune telling
Geography
Going on holiday
Going on safari
Good Witch, Bad Witch
Granny Connie went to market
Guess the present
HAPPY CLAPPING
Hairdressers
Hands up
Here comes the bride
Homemade panto
How much is that doggy
If I were king
LILY PADS
Libraries
Little darlings
May day
Monsters
Mystery Foods
Number counting
Old macdonald
PETER RABBIT
Picnics
Pirates
Puppet shows
Question time
Rainy day den
Santa's little helpers
Shops
Smells familiar
Swapsies
Tap tap tip tip
Tattoos
Teatime Spooks
Telephone calls
Tents
The game
The handbag game
The hat game
Themed bath fun
Twinkle twinkle
Two word story
Word association
Wrap up warm
Yes and no

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