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Here is another one of the random activities I found on my “sticky thing”…. this one is a super fun pretend play activity! I’m so glad I found these old activities. I hope you are enjoying them as much as I am!
Laundry Day… Pretend Play Area
Our “laundry room” was so easy to set up! Don’t you just love cardboard boxes? I cut extra large circles to mimic a washer and dryer. Okay I’ll tell the truth, I’m not allowed to use any tools (which is a story I’m sure you will love). So my hubs cut the holes for me. I did everything else though… I swear!
I copied our washer and dryer knobs almost exactly… thinking that would be the easiest thing. I used a couple smaller boxes from our recycle bin and made them into “soap” and “fabric softener” containers. The laundry basket was full of towels and dress up clothes. M and M had a great time washing, drying and folding clothes! (Great practice for the future. 
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This post is a part of the Pretend Play skills.
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You know you’ve got me with this one! How long will you leave it out? Are you doing any stories along with it or working on sorting? I want more details!
This is an activity we did a long time ago. I never put it in a post because I didn’t have anything to go with it. (Although looking at the pics makes me want to do it again!) I left it out until they started climbing in and rolling around. Then I got rid of the laundry stuff and let them use the boxes for rolling in until they were tired of that. They were probably out for about 2 weeks.
What fun at such a reasonable price!
I would say free is reasonable…
And yes it was so fun!
You rock Jill! love the idea of using boxes for the laundry pretend play
Esther!!! You made my day! I rock?!?! Thank you, thank you!
Oh this is wonderful. We are definitely doing this when we have a couple of big boxes.
You can also do this with small boxes taped together.
I love this! So easy, but so fun! I pinned this to my board under dramatic play!
Yeah! Thank you.
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I love this! My kid loves nothing more than a cardboard box and they have so much potential – it also keeps imagination alive!!
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We have a gigantic box in the garage I have yet to pull out. I just have to figure out the perfect reason!