With so many lovely responses to my recent Simple Baby Play posts, I thought I would finally get around to sharing with you a list of items I class as baby play essentials. These are all things that I have built up over time and most of them are things you will more than likely have in your house already, and the rest I either picked up at Wilko, Tiger, The Works or Poundland. They are my four go to store for picking up little bits for play which don’t cost a bomb. When it comes to storing everything, we have a little plastic drawer unit in our conservatory where most of it lives, but you could use a large plastic box, a spare cupboard or drawer. One thing to bare in mind is, as some of the items are quite small, I keep the contents out of reach of Florence so for safety reasons, she can’t just help herself to these things.
Kitchen Utensils (wooden spoons, spatulas, whisk, measuring spoons etc)
Collander
Cookie Cutters
Plastic Cups – Stacking or otherwise
Brushes (Hair, nail, pastry, make up)
Rubber ducks
Miniature Vehicles
Miniature Figures
Sponges
PomPoms
Waterbeads
Feathers
Googly Eyes
Pipecleaners
Straws – Plastic or paper
Silk Scarves
Balls of all sizes & types
Shower Gels
Baby Oil
Empty plastic bottles
Tuff Spot
Plastic Storage Tubs
Marshmallows
Cereals
Popcorn
Zip Lock Bags
Musical Instruments (You could of course use Pots, Pans & home made shakers too!)
Textured Sticky Back Plastic
Fabric & Ribbon Scraps
Pegs
Foil Blanket
Ice Cube Trays
Baby Safe Mirrors
Bubbles
Kitchen Roll Tubes
Board Books (See our favourite baby board books here.)
I hope you’ve found this little list of baby play essentials useful. If you’re looking for some ways you could use them within your play, you can check out my baby play posts here.
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