Recreating the first Moon landing using a junk model rocket and lunar module and landing it on a lunar surface made of moon sand was another fun way to bring history to life. There is no worry about them putting things in their mouth as everything except the figures are edible. Again, I went with his interests and he was able to use his imagination and creativity with the peg doll and little pieces.

I also used a cereal box and painted in red and drew the face of the caterpillar on the front and painted that. Now that Thomas is able to engage more in small world play, I suspect the tuff tray is going to be used more and more to create various scenes. Here you'll find a mix of parenting tips, easy crafts, fun activities, and free printables to make your life that little bit easier. Esther also enjoyed loading up her dumper truck with different food stuffs and driving them round the farm to the different animals. They then set about playing – they used some empty fruit boxes to collect the vegetables, dairy produce and fruit.I really love the messy, sensory play for babies and small-world play for toddlers and preschoolers.

I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). We grabbed a white blanket to place over the tuff tray, added our favourite panda book then found all the soft toy pandas in the house.

Focusing on endangered animals was really nice as we were able to have some lovely learning conversations about what endangered means and other areas of conservation. Just tip whatever cereal you have to hand onto your tuff tray and grab your farm animals, trucks, tractors, and diggers!

To create the quarry tuff tray I printed straight and curved roads, then laminated them and stuck them in position on the tuff tray. And, if you try out any of the ideas above please do tag me and the Instagram account of the original creator - we would love to see all of your creations! As with our standard sized mats, they're great for a change of scenery to encourage new types of creative and imaginative play. We played with it for hours and because the ingredients are dry I have been able to keep them, those that were not eaten(!I used plastic shrub plants from Harry’s Schleich watering hole and laid them across the top of the soil on the green Play-Doh and between the rocks. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. I rolled a long green sausage out of play dough, squashed it flat and made lots of line indents all the way along. The children really enjoy playing outside in the garden and as part of a Minibeast topic this was a perfect opportunity to set up a Bug Tuff Tray.