Because they're not hunched over an iPad in a distant bedroom, quietly mesmerized by a game or show, they're racing around the kitchen where I'm trying to cook, or building
blanket forts as I'm trying to vacuum, or excavating holes in the freshly - planted garden.
Not exact matches
Just like before, you can still enjoy the old - fashioned pleasure of creating simple toys from scratch such
as sock puppets, paper dolls, cardboard
forts,
blanket tents, paper beads, balance boards and painted rocks.
As a child ages, a baby
blanket can become part of a
fort during playtime, wrapped around during story time, and is a token of a Cancer mama's love.
You might even create a
fort, such
as using a
blanket over a card table, and call it her morning nest.
As parents, we don't usually have to do much to encourage
fort building other than provide time and some basic materials like old sheets,
blankets, and some scrap wood.