Pretend Play Doctor Printables

Is it just me or has this week been dragging? I feel like today should have been Friday! Today, our homeschool group volunteered as bell ringers for the Salvation Army and it was a lot of fun. The kids met lots of new friends and met up with old ones. Parents got to hang out and chat as our kids worked and chatted too. We are trying to find different ways to give back to our community and we really enjoyed doing this.

As I mentioned TUESDAY in my blog post, my kids LOVE imaginative play, so I figured today I would share some printables from our Doctor play. With Google and my editing program, I just tweaked and created. You can get your own copies HERE!  I laminated the eye chart and then clipped it to a clipboard, this way the kids can hang it up when they play.

Spice bottles, empy prescription bottles, small jars, wood blocks...anything medicine sized I just spray painted white and then taped, using packing tape, these 'labels' over the top. I left parts blank so that the kids can use a dry erase marker to fill in bits for that days play and then it just wipes right off.

Laminated and cut out, these are now dry-erase cards that can be used over and over again!

Print out multiples, slip them into a page protector and then have them on clipboards! Perfect for the 'waiting room'.

Print out multiples and then laminate so that they can also be used over and over again. I punched a hole on the corner of each one and then put them on a binder ring. I will have to get a picture of their actual set up the next time they play and you can see it all in action!

Enjoy every minute my friends!!

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Inexpensive Fun for All!

Thursday? Yay, we are that much closer to the end of the week and I needed it. I needed it so bad that I doubled up on the work load yesterday in order to have the school day off today. We will take in a casual Science lesson on planting and a quick geography lesson in States & Capitols by way of a fun game but that is it. My heart and brain need a break. So, while it may not really be the weekend, today is a day of relaxing and taking it easy. A day to just reflect on all that is good in the world and not focus on the negative. Is it possible to just enter a bubble for today? Anyway, I am here today to show you that it's not always necessary to $pend, $pend, $pend, in order to make awesome fun happen at home with your kids. Time and simplicity is what really describe heaven to a child. Here are a few fun things that we have been up to this week.

Take some simple dot stickers and a marker and create a large Dot-to-Dot for your child! Don't have dot stickers? Use colorful highlighters to make dots and put the numbers inside the circles in black marker! It's simple and so fun for everyone!!  

Turn an old closet door into a dual play surface! We had some large track that came with a playset just lying around and never being used that my husband stapled onto an old door that we took down when we moved in. The other side remains flat for block building and lego play. Don't have road? Make your own! Black Electrical tape and a white marker are perfect for doing such a job and the best part is that it peels up to re-do it! 

Felt squares became a hop scotch game, that quickly transformed into a game of LAVA floor where you had to only hop on the squares. That quickly turned into an obstacle course. These little squares were so inexpensive (Michaels pack of felt with a 40% off coupon!) and have been the source of so much fun! 

Felt to the rescue!! After taking some of the many felt squares they have, the kids sat down with scissors and went to work creating. I love how things from around the home can turn into a source of such fun and imagination at work.

We spent some time reading in our classroom library and the fact of the matter is that no matter how old they get, sometimes a good picture book is exactly what we all need! Enjoy the day my friends and be sure to let every moment count!

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