This giveaway has ended; thanks for your interest!
Welcome to today’s giveaway–sponsored by Imagine Childhood Toys:
From Sarah Olmsted of Imagine Childhood:
“Imagine Childhood is a family owned and operated company specializing in earth-friendly goods, craft and activity tutorials and educational supplies that support and nurture the magic of childhood.
Our carefully curated collection focuses on products that inspire children to create, imagine, and explore. With an emphasis on quality materials, our toys and tools are made for real kids and real adventures.
The holidays are just around the corner and we’re so excited to share our new Lookbook! With more than 170 pages of inspiring and thoughtful gifts, it’s our largest collection yet.
We’ve spent the last seven years combing the globe for unique heirloom quality toys, tools, games and craft projects. This Lookbook is packed with the results of our search, many of which are $25 or less.
We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!”
“In addition to our shop we also share free crafts, activities and recipes on our blog and through our recent book, IMAGINE CHILDHOOD: Exploring the World Through Nature, Imagination, and Play- 25 Projects that spark curiosity and adventure.
And now for the fun part:
Today one lucky Simple Homeschool reader will win a $150 gift certificate to our shop!”
How to Win
This giveaway has ended; thanks for your interest!
To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on this post, answering this question: How old are your children and what are their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play?
(Note: This giveaway IS open internationally–yay overseas readers!)
For an extra entry, “Like” Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook. Then leave another comment here letting me know you’ve done so!
Special Offer
Sarah is offering all readers 10% off your Imagine Childhood order through Dec. 6th! Just use the discount code “simplehomeschool” at checkout.
This giveaway has ended, and the winner is Marina A, who wrote: “My boys are 8, 4, and 2 days old!
Sticks, silks, and Legos. All day, every day!”
ohAmanda
Best toys for imaginative play—all costumes (or pieces) and real life stuff (notepads to be waiters, books to be the librarian, etc.). And of course, a giant cardboard box to be…well, anything! 😉
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ali
4-6-8 dressup clothes and any “trash” that i havent picked up before they see it
Julie
My children are 9, 8, 5, 2. Probably dress up clothes or Legos inspire the most imaginative play.
Heather
My daughter is 10 and right now her favorites are a journal and beautiful art supplies.
Cheryl
My kids are 9, 7, 6 and their favorite for imaginative play is dress up materials, and figurines like cars, people, dinosaurs, etc.
Cheryl
I like both on fb!
Alaina
My children are 2, 5 and 8. Their favourite toys that encourage imaginative play are dolls, blankets, boxes, kitchen toys and art supplies.
Ellen
I love Imagine Childhood! My oldest girls are 7 + 4 and lately their best creative toys have come from a “making box” I collected of various scraps and odds and ends. They have made so many toys out of those bits!
Wendi S
My kiddos are 12, 10, and 8…the boys are inspired by legos and my daughter is inspired by art supplies.
Jenn
My daughter is 9 and her best imaginative toy is art supplies.
For my 3 year old boy, well anything that resembles a fire truck. Fireman hat and boots are necessary too.
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Lacey
My four year old goes for hours on end with any little figurines she can make imaginative scenarios with. Heck, she even does it with clothes pegs!
Krista
My children are 7 and 11. My daughter, the oldest, is hooked on Nancy Drew right now and her little brother is always ready to help solve a mystery. So anything that can be used as a “clue”, notebooks, binoculars, etc. are the favorites for imaginative play at this time.
Jennifer
4, 2 and baby. Blocks . . . can be a bakery, amusement park, boat or anything else.
sarah
Our children are 10, 8 and 4 years old. Our 8 and 10 year old girls would make crafts all day long if they could…and some days they do! They mostly like to knit and make origami. Our 4 year old boy’s favorite toy is building blocks (especially legos). He loves to create his own airplanes and trucks and cars out of tiny blocks.
Amy C.
My son is 7, and he LOOOOOOOOOOOOVES cardboard boxes… the bigger, the better! 🙂
Miriam Prantner
My girls are 4 and 7. My seven year old’s favorite is probably her American Girl doll, and the four year old loves figurines and dress up. They both love their legos too.
Meg
My kids are 11, 9, 7, 4, and 4. Dress-up clothes for the girls and an outside stick for the boys inspire hours of play at our house!
Christine
My children are 6-4-2 and their favorites are going through my closet of clothes and shoes and taking apart our sofa chairs and turning them into forts and boats and whatever they imagine!
Lisa Joy
My youngest 2, loves to play with trains and cars. He creates scenarios all day long. My oldest 4 loves to make ‘wars’, his current favorite setup uses the Lord of the Rings Risk game.
Monique B.
My children are 6, 9, and 11. Their imaginations are so wonderful that they can create something out of anything!
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Lisa Joy
I liked both on Facebook!
Sarah Blasing
My children are 11, 9, and 5. My son loves Legos. My girls love playdoh between making fashion for their barbies to having their own restaurant!
Kelly W
My girls are 6 and 3. I am undoing a few years of tv saturation so their imagination is coming back in increments. But my 6 year old loves to play with anything that remotely resembles a princess.
Suzanne Crepeau
Children are 6 & 13… and both love imaginative play. My old scarves, jewelry and cardboard boxes are their favorite play items.
Heidi Johnson
Boys: 3, 8 & almost 10. Girls: 6 months & 6 years. Legos and costumes are big here!
Carnie crooks
Age 5 & 7
One love cutting, drawing,pasting,taping, and stapling all types of creative images.
The other loves to build from blocks, Legos, sticks, or even random toys, or forts w blankets and furniture. They both love dress up.
Carol
My son is 8 years old. A big cardboard box is still his favorite open-ended toy! He also loves art supplies.
Amanda
My children are 8, 6 and 3. There favourite toys for imaginary play are blocks. They spend hours making “set-ups” and adding animal figurines, Lego guys, etc.
Ann
My son is 8 and likes his catapult, blocks and marbles.
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Sarah Evanschwartz
We love building forts, playing dress up and have been hoping To add play scarves and dramatic play items. We also enjoy making crafts and making gooey gunk together. While the weather is making the time shorter we love playing outside exploring the forest. My oldest, age 7, was recently diagnosed with ADHD and I read in simplicity parenting that a simple, intentional home helps minimize symptoms so we have done a major purge of plastic “clutter toys”. We are trying to create a more intentional play home. But currently we are in the between time when our house is sort of sparse. This giveaway would be a perfect match at the right moment! We have three busy and fun children: boy age 7, girl age 5, and boy age 2. Thank you for considering our family and for encouraging strong families! Keep it coming.
AnnMarie M.
boys 6 and 9, wooden swords, shields, swings and forts
Ashley
7, 6, 3, and one any day now! My kids love to dress up, but really they can use anything for imaginative play! Yesterday it was hair brushes to play barber shop!
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AnnMarie M.
liked both FB pages.
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Ann
I “liked” Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
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carissa
My children are 9 and 7. Both my son and daughter like to dress up in some old medieval costumes that we have and play as if they are in that time period.
Ashley
And I like both pages on facebook! 🙂
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Kathy K-G
My kids are 11 and 14. As for imaginative play its been making up theater skits, blocks & playmobile, tubers & zots, lots of scarf and dress up clothes… and the best…cardboard boxes.
Samantha M
My kids are 8- and 5-years old. Their favorite toys are boxes and blocks.
Thanks for offering the giveaway.
Sarah Evanschwartz
I shared this on Facebook. 🙂
Christy
My children are 4 and 2. Imaginative play is all they do right now. Dress up, dolls, blocks, wood pieces, play kitchen, etc. Thanks for this opportunity, we love your items.
Amanda
I liked both on Facebook!
Alison
My sons are 11 and 7. The favorites around our home are blocks, Legos, marbles, toy guns / swords and army men.
Bethany
My son is 6. Big blocks that little folks can grab, balance & build with takes him to other worlds. And pretty much any item that allows him to move, manipulate & dig in the earth. Love what Imagine Childhhod has to offer.
Jeri Thurber
My daughtet is almost 4 and she loves to make dolls and paint. She creates very complex stories.
~Heather
My lads are 8 & 10. Books really spark their imagination.
Jeri Thurber
I like bith on facebook.
Katina
My 7, 5 and 3 year old will play for hours… what an amazing thing the imagination is and what an amazing holiday gift this would be!!
Amanda
My boys are 7 and 3. They typically use Legos, stuffed animals and their toy kitchen to pretend and play. They also use everyday items like blankets and sheets to build forts.
Molly L.
Boys 6 & 11– legos, animals, swords, capes, etc
Girl 9- paper and markers 🙂
angelina
we homeschool three very imaginative young boys thank you!
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angelina
liked both on fb! xx merry Christmas.
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Lisa
Hi – my child is 14 and very creative and imaginative. We use books, costumes and all kinds of toys as props for dress-up and play. This is also a learning experience too because we can learn about different cultures, etc. You are never too old to use your imagination. We would love to win this – sounds perfect for us – plus earth-friendly – just great 🙂 THANK YOU!
Ashley
My son is 2, and his favorites to play with are sticks, rocks, acorns, leaves, and pretty much anything else he can find out in the yard! He pretends the sticks are swords, or magic wands, or whatever his little heart desires. I’m sure he’d love almost anything off the imagine childhood shop, as well. 🙂
I’ve liked both simple home school & imagine childhood on facebook.
Natalie
My kids are 8 and 11. The most imaginative play tends to come from repurposed toys used as weapons in big games fighting an enemy, whether as Pokemon or superheroes or other types of characters.
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Holly
My kids are 6 and 8 and their favorite toy is a cardboard box.
heidi sink
I have 3 boys 7, 5, and 3. They love to come up with ways to look like what ever they are playing. Legos get played with almost every day and as long as the weather is good they spend time outside playing with whatever is available.
Me
7,5,4,2 they love to dress up and use their imaginations pretending they are kings and queens, animals etc. They also love crafts and anything paint.
Katie
I have a six year old boy and would love to win this! My sons favorite toys are small cars, play silks, all sorts of art supplies and simple blocks. He also loves blank books for making up his own stories.
Kristin
My kids are ages 14, 12, 10, 9, 7, 6, 4, 3, 1 and 1 month.
Favorite imaginative toys:
KEVA planks
box of misc. craft supplies
homemade playdough
Thanks for sharing this website! What great toys for kids!
Heather
My children are 4, 2, & 7 mos. Their favorite imaginative toys are a sit-on car, a doctor’s bag, and play-doh.
Jodie
My children are 14,10, and 8. Their days are filled with good books,lots of dress up, lego creations, blocks, nature walks, science experiments, baking, drama, repurposing cardboard boxes into castles and cabins, marble runs and so much more!
Lisa Suit
My Kids are 4, 2, & 1. Their favorite toys are definitely their kitchen set/play food and their dolls/stuffed animals! They play for hours with both! Really excited to check out Imagine Childhood! 🙂
Katie
I liked Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Anne
Costumes are our best imaginative toys–even with an age span of 3-14 years. They never tire of dressing up and making up worlds of their own.
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Lisa Suit
I also liked both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook. 🙂
Cheryl @ Sew Can Do
5, 9 & 12. Small figurines of people and animals, Lego and some crochet knit blankies that have “personalities”.
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Cheryl @ Sew Can Do
I like both sites on FB:)
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Mary
10 yo and boxes and sticks!
Tiffany
My girls would be happy with just a sheet! Forts are a must in my house!
Becca
My little guy is 7 and his favorite imaginative toys are lego which he uses to build fantastical creations of his own. Thanks for the giveaway chance!
Mary
Liked both on fb
Jessica
My children are 7 1/2, 6, 5 and 2/12. They love to build with blocks, Legos, etc and make things out of toilet paper/paper towel rolls.
Jess
My children are 3 & 5 and they like cardboard boxes, chairs to make trains, Legos, blankets for forts…um, anything that isn’t a toy because it becomes something. Thanks for the info!
Ashley Browning
My kids are 5 and 7. They will spend hours with simple wooden blocks constructing whatever their hearts desire. They are great for imaginative play!
amy
My kids are 8,6,4&1. Their favorite creative toys are their costumes!
Sharon
My kids are 11,10 and 8. We love to use nature to spark their imagination!
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Jenny
12, and 6 year olds are all legos all the time, generally building their own ships. The 9 year old in the middle just likes to take random stuff from around the house and create a nest to read in or a pet store to manage and will play for hours thus.
Sandy
My youngest is 10 and she loves to play with her little fairies and animal figures. I can hear her making up stories and chatting away with them in her room.
Tanya
My children are 5 and 6. The toys that seem to inspire the most imagination are their cars, blankets and stuffies.
Sandy
I follow you on FB and have liked Imagine Childhood. 🙂
kirsten w
My boys are 12 & 12; they use everything and anything for creative play. I have a box of “stuff” they create with; toilet paper tubes, foam meat trays, egg cartons.. you get the idea.
Ashley Freeland
My son is only two and half right now but has a crazy imagination! Recently he was pretending a plain old piece of wood was a guitar! His favorite imaginative play is probably his play food and blocks.
Trena
My daughter is 9. She loves to play with her toy animal friends.
Jaynelle
My kids (15b, 12g, 9b) are avid Lego creation designers, cardboard kitchen constructors, cupcake bakers, and readers.
kirsten w
Liked you both on FB!
Have a very Merry Christmas
Jen
My kids are 4,6,and 8. They love using puppets snd dress up clothes.
Jaynelle
I liked both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Alicia @ Investing Love
We LOVE Imagine Childhood! Our kids are 12, 9, 6, and 1. They play with a lot of dress up clothes and miniatures…dollhouse, etc.
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Alicia @ Investing Love
LIKE Simple Homeschool on FB 🙂
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Audrey P.
My kids are 7, 4 and 4. Their favorite things to play with are sticks and pinecones and stones- toys from nature! They spend lots of time being creative with art supplies and cardboard boxes, play silks and blocks are used around here a lot too!
Becca G
My kiddos are 6, 4, and 1 and love to play with magnatiles. They build so many creations (rockets, churches, sky scrapers) and let the baby knock it over. Magnatiles provide hours of creativity and play in our house.
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Becca G
I like both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on FB
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Rita
Ooh, I love this store! My children’s ages are: 8, 4, 2 (and soon to be born.) My oldest cardinal favorite is Lego’s, my middle is the artist, and the current youngest loves dolls and little people and creatures.
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Alicia @ Investing Love
LIKED Imagine Childhood on FB 🙂
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Wendy
My boys are 11 and 14. Their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play are Legos.
Rita
I liked Simple Homeschool on FB.
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Rita
I liked Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
Rita’s latest post: Getting Festive
Modern Mia Gardening
My children are ages 3-9. They will use anything that will fit in their hands or in the wagon during their imaginative play. Their current favorite is the neighbor’s climbing tree. Yesterday it was the moon of Endor and the entrance to Tatooine.
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Erin - The Usual Mayhem
My kids are 7 and 14. The 7 year old makes forts out of anything he can get his hands on, anywhere, anytime. My daughter doesn’t really “play” per se any more, but she creates constantly with sewing projects, Sims tutorials that she posts on her blog, and painting.
Portia
Thank you Jamie & Sarah
Our boys are 14 and 11, and our daughter is 10. They love motors, engines, drawing, exploring the woods, hiking, legos, buckyballs, and video/computer games, too.
Our daughter loves all those things, too! And she loves making homemade anything (make up, jewelry, gifts, clays, and doughs) and repurposing anything and everything to make homes, cities, and worlds for her pet shops and stuffed animals.
I just liked Imagine Childhood on FB
And have liked Simple Homeschool for a couple of years now (I wish there was a love button!!)
Jamie, thank you for the continual support, encouragement, and inspiration you pour into your blogs. You have shared iron rails for me quite a few times when I otherwise felt like steering of this course God has called me on! Blessings to you and your family always.
Portia
Emma
My three youngest boys are 10, 5, and 3. They play and imagine with Lego mostly, but also with stuffed animals and toys they make from cardboard.
Emma
Also, I liked both on Facebook.
Kate
I’d love to win this for my good friend’s daughter who is almost one. I think buckets are a really good imaginative play toy!
Erin
My kids are 9, 7, 5, and 8 months. Their best imaginative play comes from a combination of found items and craft supplies: a cardboard box, sticks, string, etc. and markers, glue, paper, scissors. The possibilities have no end!
Erin
I liked both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook!
annabelle
For my 5 and 7 year old boys it is characters from coloring sheets which they cut out and use to create a story world that doesn’t end. I often hear, ‘next chapter tomorrow’.
My 9 year old girl doesn’t seem to need toys as much but she does love her tiny creature toys and her beloved softies.
Thank you!
Jen B
My kids are ages 10-17. I have 6 of them! 🙂 My youngest love to play with their stuffed animals and create videos with them. They also love to make tents and pretend they are on safari.
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R Goff
Our children are 12, 11, 8, and 4 yr old twins. A large cardboard box is their favorite toy! They color it up and go to the moon or the ocean depths. Thank you for the opportunity!!!
Jen B
I like Simple Homeschool on fb
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Jen B
I like imagine childhood on FB
Jen B’s latest post: Celebrate the Differences
Stephanie Michele
My boys are three and one. My oldest lives building with blocks (making houses and cities and, oddly, gas stations) and using anything around the house to play: blankets and pillow forts, “the floor is lava”….maybe we need more imaginative play toys?
Teresa
My children are 11, 8, 6, and 2. My 11 year old can open up a notebook and the next thing I know she’s creating a story; my 8 year old likes to create castles and forts with boxes; my 6 year old creates with legos and my 2 year old enjoys playing with her baby doll. Last night I went in to check on her and she had her baby doll sitting on the opposite side of the crib modeling the way she was sitting and they were having a “conversation.”
Courtney H
My children are 4, almost 3 and 1. The four year old uses his imagination with LEGOS, capes, cardboad boxes and forts. My two year old leans toward dress up, Mega blocks and craft projects. My one year old likes to clean out the cupboards and knock over block towers and forts.
Jeanne
I have a 7 year old boy and 3 year old girl, and they both love all types of blocks…legos, wooden blocks, cuisenare rods…they can play all sorts of things with them! What a wonderful giveaway!
Jaclyn Reynolds
My children are 15, 13, 10 and 2. They have loved making movies with my camera and toys for years, like stop animation videos. They also love drawing and art time!
Terri F
My two sons, ages 9 and 7, get the most imaginative with everyday objects like boxes. Depending on the size, they will create vehicles for themselves, or their hamsters. Or they will cut it apart and make a place to live and pretend to be hamsters! And all the while they are concocting a story line to go with their play. I just love to hear them interacting together at these times!
Terri F
I liked both pages on Facebook!
Addie Metivier
my daughter is 3.5 years old, and she loves to play with handkerchiefs, small boxes, and the ikea soft square bins. she has more fun with non-toys!
i also like Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FB.
Shyla
Such a great giveaway! Thank you. I have six kids, 13, 10, 8, 5, 3, and 9 mo. Lately the favorite thing for imaginative play has been dress ups from our costume box.
R Goff
I also liked both on Facebook!
Jaclyn Reynolds
FB fan of both- JR Reynolds
JoAnne
My boys are 5 and 3. My boys love to create with Legos and paper, paper and more paper!!
Rachel C
I have two boys, 5 & 3, they love to make inventions with Tinker Toys, K’Nex, and Legos. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Jessica
My children are 11,9,and 2. My oldest loves read and draw. My nine year old daughter is a little engineer with tape and string, and My two year old son loves trains and story time. Thank you for the chance to Win!
Shyla
I liked both on FB.
Anne F
My boys are 6 and 7. The inspiration for creative play is their costume box! So many things in there to be.
Olivia
My youngest is 15 months and she loves books, balls, and legos. My other boys are 17, 19, and 24. 🙂
Jodi
My daughter is 6 and my son is 3. They love anything that involves dressing up and make believe! My daughter also loves dolls and art and my son loves boats and planes.
Amy
My kids are 3, 7, 8, 10 and 12. Honestly, some of their favorite things to play with aren’t even toys. They love building forts and putting on plays. 🙂
Jodi
I like simple homeschool on Facebook.
Mama Rachael
So, my Little Man doesn’t need anything. His hands throw fire balls, he fights “bad guys” as he ninjas around the room or yard. Two sticks help, because then he has a bow and arrow or double-wielded swords. but then I’ve seen blankets fill in for fire balls, and also other various able-to-be-thrown-things.
We did just get the Little People Manger Scene out, and that seems like it might be a favorite. We will see. He is only 3 1/2.
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Olivia
I liked your page on Facebook and I’ve already been following Simple Homeschool on Facebook. I love your site! I’m always looking for great toys.
Jodi
I like imagine childhood on Facebook .
Mama Rachael
I have already liked both simple homeschool and imagine childhood on facebook.
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Megan L.
My kids are 3 and 10. Both love playing dress-up and building castles, boats, whatever out of the couch cushions!
Susan
What a great contest.
Brett Elizabeth Spore
Our son will be 5 on Dec. 23. His favorite imaginative toys are characters of almost any kind. He loves Lego minifigures, army men, stuffed animals of all sizes, action figures. The cool thing is he isn’t really into what they were originally supposed to be and creates his own stories instead. I love that about him.
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Susan
I already like both on facebook.
Natalie
My sweet babes are six and five. Their favorite toys seem to be sticks, rocks, and blankets.
Lillian
My kiddos are 6, 5, 3 (triplets), 2, & 8 months. Their favorite imaginative toy is dressup clothes.
Nancy Wang
My kids are 12, 9, and 2. The toys that have inspired the most creative play are Playmobil figures, and those little Japanese erasers!
Sarah M
I already like both on Facebook! 🙂
Sarah M
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Melanie
My girls are 5, 3, 2, and 3 months. They love their dress up clothes! They’ve been all over the world in those clothes 🙂
Sarah M
My kids are 5 & 7 and their favorite toys seem to be their teddies. They get daily play. Also, any type of building structure and blankets. Forts are a daily around here!
Sarah M
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Sarah
My kids are 6, 8, 10, & 12. They LoVe imaginative play! We have a big dress up trunk, stuffed with costumes and random articles from the thrift store. The kids could play Legos all day long, as well as endless hours spent with the doll house, incorporating miscellaneous small toys from all sorts of sets. Seldom does the play stay in the doll house! 🙂
Nicole
We have 3 boys – 10, 7, 3. They all love legos and hot wheels.
Jamie Carbone
My kids are 3 and 7 and they build forts and bases with their blocks. They also like playing with their toy dragons and pretend to attack their bases.
Sarah
I like Imagine Childhood and Simple and Simple Homeschool on Facebook!
Nicole
I like Simple Homeschool on FB.
Danielle
My kids are ages 9, 6, 4 and 2. They all love imaginative play: pretending to be dogs, playing legos, working with tools (especially daddy’s “real” tools), playing “baby”, drawing & painting.
Kathy D
I have an almost 10 year old daughter who loves to write stories and act them out. Her favorite imagination tools are paper and pencil! She also likes to dress up and portray (at various times) a waitress, beauty salon employee, vet, doctor, teacher and spy 🙂
Amanda
I like both on Facebook!
Sara
My children are 7 and 10 years old. One of their favorite things are sticks. They can be so many things!
Laurie C
M 3 ear old son loves farm animals and will spend hours with them.
Sarah M
My kids are 6 and 9. They love to dress up and play and my daughter loves to take plain white paper and make things to imagine with!
Laurie C
I already Like both site!
Sarah Jean Etheridge
My kiddos are 1, 6, 11, and 16. We have purchased small gifts from Imagine Childhood in the past and adored them! We love pretend play and time spent in the outdoors, both of which would be inspired by the beautiful items at Imagine Childhood. Thanks!
Amy
Thanks so much for this giveaway!! I have been fretting over how to afford quality toys this year, and I hope this will give us a chance!
My kids are 3.5 and 5yo, and they are both totally different! My 3yo will sequester herself with an entire herd of horse figurines, stuffed animals, and ponies, singing and voicing all the different “people” in elaborate stories and games, while my 5yo will gallop around the house with whatever cape-like thing he can find and jump off of the furniture — I *think* there is imaginative play involved, but clearly the main point is the jumping off of things!! lol.
Anyways, thank you for the chance to win!
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Amy
I also “like” Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on facebook 🙂
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Sarah Jean Etheridge
Liked both on Facebook 🙂
Shannon
My children are 10 and 12 and still love imaginitive play. Their favorite toys are building sets, stuffed animals, small plastic or wooden animals, and anything they can use to build a tent/fort!
Sally
I have an two 11 year old daughter and a 14 old son. They still love to play outdoor town, creating bakery, post office, eateries etc all from things found outdoors. Thank you for sharing this site, the have so many lovely things! I will definitely order for when we return to the USA in January.
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Kim
My 3 year old loves to create houses, cities, roads, and landscapes with blocks, rocks, shells and silks. Peg people and cars often join in the fun!
Shannon
Liked Imagine Childhood and already liked SImple Homeschool:)
Allison
Our girls are 7 and 4 years old, and dress up time is their most imaginative play!
Minda C.
My boys are 6 and 4 and Legos are by far their favorite toys!
Amy
My daughter is 2 and is baby obsessed so our best toys for imaginative play are all kinds of babies, diapers, wipes (clean ones we’ve dried out for her), anything she can turn into diaper balm, and her own booster seat and eating utensils.
Sally
I also like your blog and imagine childhood in Facebook and shared with two Charlotte Mason groups that I think will like the products. We too have three children from three continents
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Layantie persaud
My kids are 8,7, and 3. We love Legos!
Sara
My children are 7 & 4 and their favorite type of play is dress up. The right cape or scarf can create a fantastic character!
Sara
I also liked you on Facebook!
Tara H
Our boys are 13, 11, 9, 7, and 6. They love playing with swords.
Tara H
I like both on Facebook.
Audrey P
Happy holidays! I have two boys, 4 and 1. Imaginative play and nature/outside play rule our home. Big brother likes character acting from his books, and little brother loves to do whatever he can to be part of the action!
Rachel A.
My kids are 5 & 7. They love blocks & small toy animals.
Rachel A.
I like you both on Facebook
Jennifer G.
My daughter is 6. Her box of dress up clothes is one if get favorites! But there are so many more! Tea parties with all her animals. I wish I could post a pic because they are pretty amazing 🙂 just listening to her make up songs and dance around makes my heart happy!! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Jennifer G.
I’m a fan of both on Facebook 🙂
Missy Cochran
I like both of you on FB, and thank you for this giveaway opportunity! Mine are 10, 8, 8, and 5 and be creative with anything and everything, but they especially love music and art.
Danielle Drown
My boys are 5 and 7 and they love playing with their blocks and costume pieces
Danielle Drown
I like both simple homeschool and imagine childhood on facebook
Camille l
My kids are 13,11,9 and 7. They love to play with Lego’s, my girls love playing with fills and animals, and they will all dress up and play that they are orphans. Or play war outside.
Chris
My children are 10, 7, 5, 3, and 3. They love to play outdoors, so anything they can find becomes a world of play – sticks, rocks, mud, trees. They also love to play with Legos and blocks 🙂
Chris
I like Imagine Childhood on FB.
Angie Cox
My children are ages 6, twins 9, 11, 14, 16, 18 and 23 and a grandson turning 1. My 6 year-old daughter loves anything related to art and dressing up. She often creates a little space within other rooms to create her works of art, skits and dances. My twin 9 year-old boys enjoy sketching, painting, magic tricks, origami and inventing. They use everything from card board boxes to aluminum foil to their circuit kits to invent almost anything. I often find my pantry full of cereals or snacks in bags because the boxes have used for masks or building cities. I am amazed by their creativity and attention to details. Thanks for the giveaway!
Angie Cox
I am already a fan of Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Amber
My kids are 11 and 13 and the dress up closet still gets the most use every time friends are over!
Chris
I like Simple Homeschool on FB.
Amber
And I like both on Facebook!
R Finklea
My 2 year old son loves books and blocks. My 7&9 year old daughters really enjoy dress up and tea parties.
Anastasia @ eco-babyz
My kids are 3 and 6 and they love Legos, about the only multi-part toy I actually appreciate, they are very creative with it. They also love painting and drawings every day.
Julia Dickson
My kids are 7, 5 and 2 and hands down their favorite toys are the play silks I dyed for them a few years ago. The kids have become so many different characters in their play adventures and also use them as baby doll blankets. It was a fun project for me and they have held up so well!
Anastasia @ eco-babyz
I like both on Facebook 🙂
Julia Dickson
I liked Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on facebook!
Samantha Allen
My kids are 5, 3, and 2months old. They’re favorite toys to use their imagination with are definitely their legos and stuffed animals. They have so much fun creating different stories with their toys.
Samantha Allen
I like both pages on Facebook. 🙂
Holly
My children are 1, 3, and 5. All girls and they love dress up! The older two also just like plain paper. They could draw and create all day, if I let them!
Melissa P.
My kiddos are 3 and 4. Lately their favorite imagination tool are blankets to make “museum” forts.
Melissa P.
Both facebook pages have been liked for some time now. 🙂
Holly
I like both on Facebook as well! : )
Erin
What a great company!! I can’t wait to check out everything else they have to offer!! I also “liked” both on Facebook!! Great giveaway!
Elizabeth Floyd
My kids are 11, 9, 8, 6, and 1. Outdoor materials are what they love to play with: sticks, rocks, trees. They love the woods, they love being outside.
Kelly Shiplett
My two girls are 7, and they LOVE pretend play with animals and blocks!!!
Juli Vrotney
My children are 8,6 and 3 years old. Lego’s, and wooden train set are some of their favorite things to play with. Otherwise they will use whatever they can find to play “doctor” etc.
Judith
My children are 5 and 6 years old. Their favorite toys for imaginative play are any household items or things from outside that they can figure out what to make them into.
Casey
My kids are 12, 10 and 2. My two year old loves blocks, silks, and anything that rolls, especially trains. He is just discovering pretend play with stuffed animals.
Casey
I liked both on Facebook ( a long time ago;)
Abby
My children are 7, 5, 3, 1, and newborn, and they use just about anything that isn’t fastened down for imaginative play.
Melanie
Our boys are 4, 2, and 9 months old. Their favorite toys that encourage their imaginations are definitely Legos, their blankies (used as SO many things, a cape, a flying carpet, etc), wooden blocks, and of course coloring.
Sara
I have three kids, ages 2, 3, and 5. Their favorite pretend-play toys are dress-up clothes, kitchen toys, and stuffed animals. They would love the toys from Imagine Childhood!
Juli Vrotney
I liked both facebook pages. What a neat giveaway.
Sara
Just liked both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook. 🙂
Kristin
My kids are 12, 9, 7, and 4 months. The favorite toy is definitely Lego’s!
Melanie
I like both on facebook
AmyB
My kids are 11, 8 & 6. They love playing with sticks, legos, or any sort of figurine. Excited to find out about this company!
J. Mickey
My kids are 7 and 2 and love playing with rocks & sticks. And cars. Somehow cars end up being everything under the sun.
J. Mickey
I’ve liked both pages on Facebook!
AmyB
I liked both on Facebook
ashley in arkansas
My kids are 6 ad 9 and really love imaginative play! Vikings and Narnia characters are their favorites right now.
I also liked both on Facebook.
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Molly
15, 13, 10,7, being in nature, hiking, sticks, trees, good art supplies, I would love a chance to win!!
Anna L.
For my 11 year old son, it’s all about construction toys: LEGO, K’Nex, Zoob. He comes up with all sorts of projects. For my almost 13 year old daughter, she is moving out of playing with toys, but she still has a small number of stuffed animals she plays with. Each of those animals has a name, a voice and personality and when she plays with them, she comes up with fun story lines.
Anna L.
I like Simple Homeschool on FB.
Katherine
My kids are 7, 5, 2.5 & 13 weeks. Our favorite toys to encourage imaginative play is dress ups. Thanks for an awesome give away!
Amber
My son is 3 and loves to create things with “jawbones”. My daughter is 6 and uses about any item we have to pretend it is something else. Right at this moment, she is using the markers as various flavored lollipops to sell in her “roadside stand” in our living room and the decorative pillow from my bed as a cake! I also have a 7 month old son who just started crawling, and his current favorite toy is everything!!
Mary
My children are 6, 3 and 3 mos. Stuffed animals, costumes, and trucks are always favorites and they get added to household and art items to create elaborate play scenes. Thank you for offering this!
Michelle
My boys are 10, 8, 7, and 2. Their imaginations thrive with building materials: blocks, blankets, Legos and the like. They also love swords and capes.
Pamela R
My kiddos are 5, 9, 12 and enjoy art supplies, magnatiles and a few little figures and can spend the day playing!
J
My youngest son who is 9 loves to walk around with his homemade swords and shield. He and his brothers ages 14 and 12 put their money together to buy a huge bag of Lego blocks at a garage sale to add to the ones they already had!
Marlina
My son is 8, and my daughter 3. She loves being a princess. A piece of cloth tied with pretty ribbons could be a queen’s gown one day, and next day a cape. Christmas baubles becomes glittery fruits in her hands. Buttons becomes cookies, and toilet paper rolls are drinking cups. I love your products. All of them! it makes me drool just going through the Look Book! 😀
Kyrie
Our girls are 9, 7, 5, and 3. they draw and write constantly (blank books and colored pencils are the favorites here), and love their stuffed animals, dolls, and playsilks (which give the, endless baby blankets, stuffed animal capes, and dressups).
Kyrie’s latest post: Shifting
Kyrie
Liked both on Facebook!
Kyrie’s latest post: Shifting
Jennifer
My 5 year old and my 2 year old are busy right now with their wooden blocks – we have gotten so many hours of play from simple wooden blocks! Their 11 month old brother loves them too!
Gwen @ ButtercupsBabies.com
My children are 7, 4, and 2. Legos are definitely a favorite, as well as ropes & sticks, “medical supplies”, and play kitchen materials. 🙂
Heather
My boys are six and four and the toys that they like the most for imaginative play are Legos (they are so creative with them and do a lot of role playing with the people). They of course love building and discovering things outside too 🙂
Robyn McLeod
My children are 8, 7, 5 and nearly 2. The three oldest adore wooden train tracks, stuffies, knight dress up clothes and art supplies. They’ll spend hours left to the own devices with these kinds of toys. My little one is just getting into babies and farm animals. She’s often “the baby” when the olders kidnap her for playing Family, but she’d much rather be the mommy lol
Heather
I like both sites on FB
sara
My kids are ages 8, 11, and 13…they still like to play legos and get very imaginative with those. Thank you for the awesome giveaway!
Heather C
My children are 11, 9, and 7. Legos and wooden blocks are their favorite creative toys.
Heather C
I have “liked” both on FB.
elena
my living kids are 6 and 3. They love to play with legos, dolls, and acorns and pinecones in their fairy house.
elena
I liked both sites on FB
Amy Boone
My children are 7, 4, and 2. They love legos, wooden train sets, and blocks!
Amy Boone
I “like” both on Facebook!
Jessica Rivera
My son is 4 and he loves playing with dinosaurs and also swords. My daughter is 1 and she loves her babies. (I also liked both pages on fb)
Kim W.
My kids are 4, 2 and twins due in February! They love blocks and art materials! Thanks!
Andrea Smith
My kids are 5, 3, and 8mos. My five year old is a mini-mama. She loves to play with baby dolls, mini kitchen stuff, purses, shopping carts, etc. My 3 year old will play along, but she likes to play with little people like in a doll house and make them act and do stuff. My 8 month old has been far more interested in baby toys than his sisters and I find him doind stacking puzzles and such. I’m amazed!
Clarissa
My children are 1 & 3 and my favorite toy for them have actually been these two large exercise mats. We make forts out of them and they have a blast. They are also perfect for horsing around on because they create a soft place to fall. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
Tanya W
My kids are 14,9 and 6. We love dress up clothing, blocks and fairy houses. Art supplies are always used along with their play (lots of signs and pictures!) Thanks so much for the fantastic giveaway!
Tanya W
I like both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FB.
Cherish
My kids are 8, 6 and 3. They loves all kids of blocks and play silks. I’m off to check out your store!
Cherish
I just liked your facebook pages!
Christina Schickler
My son is going to be 2 next week and we have another on the way! He loves playing with cars and trains and is now starting to become more imaginative with them and his peg people! He is receiving more for his birthday and Christmas, so I can’t wait to see his imagination flourish with them! =)
Amanda
My daughter is almost two. And, she’s starting to engage in imaginative play. Her favorite thing right now is to turn anything and everything into either a camera or a drum. 🙂
Kim Ho
Our kiddos are 6, 3, and 1!!! They create with Legos and blocks!!! They also love creating with art!! Drawing, painting, etc. liking pages on Facebook for extra entries!!! 🙂
Sarepta
books! They are pre-readers but enjoy making up own stories. Then whatever toys are near become added to the story.
Lisa Wess
4 year old girl and twin 1 year old boys. The boys love play pits and pans to make music and my daughter love building castles out of blocks.
Whitney
My kids are 13, 7, and 4. My son’s favorite imaginative toy is , no lie, a stick. He can make a stick into anything and play with it for hours. Aside from that, as for bought toys, all three most love their kinetic sand. They have spent hours playing with that stuff together.
Sarepta
Liked both on Facebook!
Alison W
My kids are 10,8,7,5 and hands down they’re favorite thing is dress up clothes! They go from ninjas, to chefs, to pirates, and backs again all in one day:)
Alison W
Liked both pages on facebook!
Nicola
My kids are just-10 and almost-7. They still love simple toys such as large wooden blocks, Tinker Toys, dolls, and hands-on sensory play. Thank you for the generous give-away!
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Kali
My girls are 7, 4, and 2 years old. Currently their favorite toys are musical instruments, dolls, and building blocks.
Nicola
I have already liked Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook!
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Pamela
My children are 6, 4 and 1. Their favorite toys for imaginative play are dolls, silk scarves and dress up clothes! What a great giveaway just in time for Christmas!
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Pamela
I like both on fb!!
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Kaaryn
My children are 9, 9 and 7. They are most content doing art projects, playing with legos, board games and made up games.
Kim Savino
My twins are 7 and they love playing dress up and any building toys. Their favorite building toy right now are Picasso Tiles.
Sue
Our kids are 2 & 4 and I realize that what they like best recently is their random assortment of mixed up toys, figurines and plastic bugs which provide them with a whole host of possibilities!
Sue
Liked both. Thanks!
Kim Savino
Likes Imagine Childhood on FB
Carole
I have two boys, ages 8 and 11. The oldest is loving books and acting out/retelling the stories or creating scenes with legos. My youngest spends his time outside in the woods, on the swings, or being with the chickens.
Lynda
My son is 5. He loves to play with toy animals and make up stories about them!
Erin BRown
My daughters are 2 and 5. They love scarves and their stuffed animals
Kim Savino
Liked Simple Homeschool!
Erin BRown
Liked both pages!
Cammy Perez
My girls are 9,7,6, & 3. The enjoy big boxes, hammers, nails, and mud:)
Megan M.
My kids are 2, 4, 6, and 8 and they love Legos and cardboard boxes. Oh, and full rolls of toilet paper. Haha!!
Cat
My favorite toy that encourages imaginative play is actually our firefighter hats. When my kids wear those, they turn everything into a fire or a firetruck, a hose, etc! They are 4, 2, and 4 mos. 🙂 The baby doesn’t participate so much yet! 🙂
Cat
I liked Imagine Childhood on facebook.
Cat
I liked Simple Homeschool on facebook. 🙂
sara
My kids are 13, 8, 4 and 1
Legos, trains and princesses are favorites here
Amy
Hi Jamie. What a cool offer! My kids are 9,8,6,4,2,1
The older boys love swords. My older daughter loves her doll. My youngers are happy with just about anything. We love wooden toys that remind us of Little House in the Big Woods!
I also LIKED your FACEBOOK page! 🙂
Stephanie
Our kids are 6 & 2 and our dress up bin and there play silks offer hours of imaginative fun!! Thanks for the chance at this awesome giveaway we love Imagine childhood!
Molly
Perler beads and simple craft supplies keep my two boys (5 and 6) occupied for hours. Thank you for the chance!
Jessica
My kids are 4, 2.5, and 7 months. The two oldest are boys and love cars and trucks. They like pretending to be race car drivers.
Stephanie
I liked Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on facebook!
Jessica
I liked both FB pages.
Kristen
My daughter is 8 and she loves playing with her stuffed animals, dolls and dress up clothes.
Mary
I have an 8 y/o daughter who loves anything dress-up for pretend play.
Maggie
4 1/2 boy and 15 month girl. My older one is HUGE into dress up these days, particularly superheroes and robots
Sally
My children are 8, 5 and 3. They love using silks and felt toys to make up stories, and using tree blocks (and regular blocks) to make houses/sheds/garages for their little cars.
Becky
My kids are 4, 5,and 7…all boys, so we LOVE building blocks, dress up, charades and gun fights!
Sally
ps I ‘like’ simple homeschool and imagine childhood on Facebook.
Crystal Cook
My son is six. His favorite toys for creative play are a foam sword, legos, costumes, and his stuffed animals.
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Crystal Cook
I’ve liked Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Crystal Cook’s latest post: SimplyFun Giveaway
Crystal Cook
I’ve liked Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
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Maria Avellino
Our kids are 6 and 3. Both the big sister and little bro love all forms of dress-up play. They bring in scarves, baby dolls and stuffed animals to suit whatever story-line they are imagining. Just the other day, everyone morphed into fairies and reenacted a scene from Tinkerbell. What fun! The plot lines are endless:)
Angela
I have a nine yr old girl who plays and plays with her lego minifigures and other dolls for hours. My six year old son loves play swords and legos. Hope I win 🙂
Jayme
My kids are 2 and 4. My laundry basket and their toy brooms are the most used toys in our house! Generally functioning as a boat with oars or hockey sticks and goal 🙂
Virginia
My daughter is 11 and still loves imaginative play. We think it is very important. Whatever is handy can be used for play. We have always loved giant cardboard boxes.
Rebekah F
My kids are 2, 4, and 6. They love Lego Duplo, cars, and pretending to be animals.
Rebekah F
I liked your Facebook page.
Amanda
Kids are 3 & 5. They love their stuffed animals, dressing up, dollhouse dolls, action figures and whatever they make!
Amanda
Fan of both on FB!
Kris Jarecki
My kids are 18, 16, 15, 13, 8 and four. Legos are a big part of our imaginative play, as well as MagnaTiles , QBaMaze, Fidgits and swords, always, swords!
Leilani
My kids are 9, 7, and 3 and they love playing with dressup and props. Thanks for the giveaway!
Barb S.
My kids are 13, 10 and 8. They love Legos.
Barb S.
Liked Imagine Childhood
Barb S.
Liked Simple Homeschool
Stephanie Hanes
My kids are 6, 4, 2, and 4 months. It’s amazing the way their imaginations work. A simple box becomes a spaceship or race car and they love our big box of costumes.
Stephanie Hanes’s latest post: This Is My Brave
Ann
My six children, ages 13, 11, 8, 5, 3 and 6 months, love play cloths/silks. When my oldest was 2, I bought several yards of cotton fabric and hemmed them. They are still a favorite toy today! They are used to dress up, to drape over chairs, to have picnic on and to wrap the baby in. Dress up costumes are popular as well.
Heather Borchert
My kids are 9 and 7 and love costumes the most. They play inside and outside using costumes and their imagination. Thanks!
Ann
Liked Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
Jennifer
My kids are 5 and 2 and they love dress up and any kind of building blocks, legos, etc.
Sarah Hammond
My daughter is 3 1/2 and loves coloring and creating masterpieces as well as dress up costumes!
Carrie Cox
My kids are 16, 9, and 6. They love dress-up, building sets, figurines and vehicles.
Sarah Hammond
I just liked both Facebook pages as well 🙂
Angela Alison
My kids are 7, 5 and 2 and love plastic animals, from farm animals to dinosaurs. They come up with names for them and play a myriad of games with them, only problem is when you find a stegosaurus on the floor in the night with your foot!!
Stephanie
Aloha,
My children are ages 3 and 5 and we welcome new educational toys. Happy, happy holidays!
Kelsey
7, 5, 2 (almost 3) and 1! The oldest enjoys art and building and writing stories, my oldest daughter loves her dolls, the toddler enjoys dinosaurs and bugs, while the baby enjoys anything she can reach to play with.
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Gini
My kids are 9, 6 and 4. They LOVE their stuffed animals. Blocks and books are some of their favorites, too. 🙂
Fibia
Kids are 8 and 5. They like pretending to be animals, playing with wooden toys, and building with bricks.
Fibia
Fan of both pages on FB (Fibia Simona).
Jennifer Olson
My kids are 7 and 5. They love cardboard boxes, paper and tape to build just about anything.
Jennifer Olson
I like both pages on FB as well.
Kerri fry
My son is 5 and likes to use a combination of books, old wood Lincoln logs, trains cars and anything else he can find to bold race courses and whole cities.
Paige
Our kids are 8 and 9 and they love creating with Legos, cars, plastic animals and dress up clothes.
Paige
I am a fan of both pages on FB.
Kristin Evans
My children are 5, 3.5, and 21 months old- all boys. They love Mega blocks, Lego, dress up clothes, and police and fire fighters toy sets for imaginative play. Anything to do with transportation is huge at my house.
alicia s
My kids are 2, 4, & 4. They love to play with random things they find around the house, like fake jewels and things like that. 🙂
Crystil Lee
My kids are 5 and 1. They are always dragging around stuffed animals and cars.
alicia s
Liked Imagine Childhood.
alicia s
Liked Simple Homeschool.
Monica
Ages 4, 3, and 1. Silk scarves!
Angela C.
My son is eight, and he spend hours with his Legos, creating all sorts of worlds.
Helen
6, 3, and 1.5! Love to dress up and anything with wheels!
Angela C.
I like both pages on facebook.
sarahlvenn
3.5 and 5. They can play for hours with their stuffed animals, making up very intricate characters and story line to go with it. It is super fun to watch.
Fawn
My kids are 6 and 4, and they love blank paper, crayons, scissors, and tape/glue!!!
Lisa
My daughter is 10. Her favorite toys always have been her stuffed animals. They are players in complex stories and residents of imagined worlds.
Tavia
Mine are 6,4, and 2. The older ones could do Legos all day. The younger loves (my) kitchen tools! Thank you!
Tavia
Like both on fb!
Amanda Abernathy
I have 3 beautiful children. Oldest daughter is 7, she’s my artist and loves any kind of art supplies, especially glittery ones. Middle son is 4, he’s my builder and loves any kind of building toys like blocks, linkin logs and anything that he can build with. My youngest daughter is almost 2 and she loves pretend play, she loves her little farm animals and barn and playing Mommy with her baby.
Amanda Snow
My son is 3 and LOVES his wooden trains. He plays typical train games with them, but also makes them “talk,” puts them to sleep at night, and asks them if they’ve had enough to eat. It’s adorable!
Lori
My kids are 3, 2 and 3 months. They love stuffed animals, dress up clothes, Duplo Legos and a play kitchen for imagination play.
Bethany
My children are 5, 3 and 1. Their imagination comes alive with our play kitchen, indoor tricycle and any baskets or boxes lying around.
Diane
My children are 12, 11, and 4.
My 12 year old mostly plays ps3 games or computer games.
my 11 year old loves barbies and monster high dolls.
my 4 year old loves cats. She has small cats that live in her doll house. Crafts i don’t have enough for her. She loves to paint and draw circle people.
kelly McBride
My kids are 9 and 6. For imaginative play, they love to use paper, tape, pencils, pillows, blankets, and musical instruments. They can also build and play with blocks for hours.
Bethany
I like both on Facebook.
Elizabeth
My kids are 6, 4, almost 2, and due in February. Their favorite imagination toys are anything that is not really a toy at all! Boxes, plates and cups, bits of paper that are cut up and spread all over the house…
Elizabeth’s latest post: Seeking Knowledge
Elizabeth
And I have “liked” both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FB. Thanks for this giveaway!
Elizabeth’s latest post: Seeking Knowledge
Rebecca
13, 10, 9, 2, 12weeks. Each child has different ways to be creative. I have one Lego maniac, one computer hacker, a craft/sewing/drawing girl, and one who loves dress up, play kitchen, Stuffies. And of course one who is more interested in sleeping than playing right now! With FOUR birthdays in December, a gift cert would be awesome!
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Julie
My girls are 3 & 5. They pretend they are horses, kitties, dogs, or other people. Just started playing “house” where one is the mom and one the baby. Toys they love are dolls and stuffed animals and dress up clothes.
Julie
I “like” both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on facebook.
Mary
Three boys ages 4, 3, and 7 months. swords and bows and arrows to slay the bad guys in the dark
Marcy Nateras
I have a 5year old and a 3 year old. They love to dress up in my shoes, dress up clothes and towels that are capes or long long hair
Colleen M
7 & 9 year olds at home. They love creating worlds & characters with Legos.
Tamara Mays
My boys are 20 months and 3 and love cars and Legos but they also LOVE playing housekeeping with their play brooms and vacuums! Husbands in training!
Christine
My children are 13, 10, 8 , 6 and 4. Books, costume clothing, dolls, blocks and trains inspire imaginative play in our home.
fatema
I have a 4 year old and a 1.5 year old that are both Lego crazy!
I “like” Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FaceBook.
Marcy Nateras
Marcy and Fermin Duenas like simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FB.
Colleen M
Liked both on fb. 🙂
Krista
My children are 3, 5 and 8. Our favorite toy to inspire the imagination are lego blocks.
Krista
I liked the page on facebook.
Katie
My girls are almost 1, 3, and 5. They love picnics, blocks, cars, and toy animals.
Kelly
My kids are 8,6,3, & 1. Their fave imaginative toys are blocks and creating things with art supplies!
Noelle B
My girls are almost. 3 and 5. Their wooden horses / farm animals definitely inspire lots of horse related play! So imaginative and fun. They also love their leaf pile… Hours of make believe and games 🙂
Dawn
I have ages 10, 8, 5, and 2. We play a lot of Legos, dress up and Ninjas at our house.
Kristen
My children are 14 , 6 and 3. The favorite toys include Legos, art supplies, dress up anything and sticks and rocks!
Megan C
My daughter is 21 months and loves books, play food, blocks and baby dolls! It is so fun to watch her growing, learning and exploring more pretend play each day!
Megan C
I liked Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool! 🙂
Natalie
My girls are 2 and 4. Right now the play kitchen is the favorite!
Natalie
Liked both FB pages, too!
Anne
My youngest children are 9 and 10 years, and their current favorite toy is the large pipe cleaners. They have made hats, masks, backpacks, and backpack leashes for each other.
TwiddleBagsAndSuch
This is the best thing I’ve seen in a LONG time! And just in time for Christmas! I have been looking all over for these very unique types of toys that aren’t plastic and leave nothing for interpretation or imagination. My kids are 13,10, and 3. We value simple, beautiful, timeless pieces that have multiple uses and a world of possibilities. Rocks and playdough are among our favorites at the moment. Books and music are way up there too. Thank you for sharing this with us!
Katie S
6, 4, 2. Blocks/Lego are our go-to imaginative toy.
Lynette
My children are 15, 12, 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1. Their favourite things for imaginative play are usually found outside: discoveries in the barn loft, hiding places in the orchard, making fairy houses in the summer from leaves, flowers, and pine cones. In the house they love Legos/Duplos, blocks, playing house, and being detectives.
Sara R
My kiddos are 4, 6 & 8. They can while away the hours with Legos, their play house area, or doll house.
Alicia
Mine are 4 and 2, and they love everything for imaginary play. Toy food, dolls, animal figureings. Boxes. Sky’s the limit.
Sara R
I like both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
brittany
My boys are 6, 5, 3, and 18 months. Their favorite is the hobbit house we built out back for them last christmas!
Sandi
My kids are 7 and 8 yrs old. They spend hours playing with Keva planks and also stuffed animals.
Caroline
My kids are both preschoolers (5 and under) and love to play with books, balls, coloring supplies, and each other! (Thanks for this great giveaway opportunity!)
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melissak
Our girls are 8 and 10 and especially love to pretend with dress-up clothes and repurposed props! I like both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
Breanne Halderman
Hi, my girls are 14 (books and art supplies), 4 (dress-up, play food, and forts), 3 – twins (baby dolls, blocks, and rocks?). And I have a new baby boy (he just wants you to talk to him 🙂 I love the idea behind these toys. It’s right up my alley! Thanks for the opportunity, and the discount!
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Sandi
I’ve liked both Facebook pages. 🙂
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Megan Lowry
My kids are 2, 4, 6, and 7. They play best when they are outside. Sticks, pinecones, rocks, acorns, ect. are the best imaginative toys.
Megan Lowry
I already like both simple homeschool and imagine childhood on facebook…
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Leah
Caleb is 6 and he likes to build cities, towers and spaceships with wooden blocks.
Leah
I’ve liked both FB pages.
Karla
My kiddos are 7, 5, and almost 2. They LOVE to pretend play on a daily basis – especially my 7-year-old daughter! She creates her own paper dolls and scenes with simple paper and markers/crayons/colored pencils, but also loves to play with dolls, pretend kitchen items, and dress up clothes. My 5-year-old son loves sensory stuff – like kinetic sand, dirt, play dough, water – and building with Legos and trains. The almost-two-year-old mimics her siblings, but gravitates towards drawing and carrying around a doll or kitty.
James Wise
0, 2 & 4 – The Superman cape gets the big win on imaginative play at our house, closely followed by the “Dress Up” clothes (doctor, wedding, princess, hats, etc).
Heather
Our girls are are 2, 4, and 6. They love playing “house”. It’s their favorite game incorporating dress up, baby dolls, and the play kitchen. They have fun this way for hours almost everyday! Winning this giveaway would be beyond fantastic! Thank you!!!
Christine
My sons are 11, 5 and 1. They like costumes and puppet shows, making forts.
Christine
I like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on facebook.
Ashley Moshell
We have a 7 year old, 5 year old and 2 year old…all boys! They love to play their version of dress up which always involves a cape, as well as building things out of all different materials.
Ashley Moshell
I liked Simple Homeschool already on FB, and now like Imagine Childhood.
Ingrid
My girls are 7 and 5 and love to put on dance and theater productions!
Rosemarie
I have three boys. Ages 11, 8 and 1. Right now they are having a great time with all of our wooden trucks.
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Laura B
My son is 8 and he finds creativity in EVERYTHING- our recycling is his favorite building blocks, we also love puppets and many outdoor treasures.
Sarah (Home's Cool)
Four kiddos here, aged 8 (almost 9), 7, 5 & 3. My three boys and daughter share most interests and all toys! The ones they spend the longest with and come back to most often are blocks. Blocks of any kind; wooden blocks, Lego bricks, Multi link cubes and also the virtual blocks of Minecraft . They love to create structures, characters and stories with their vivid imaginations. (Home’s Cool ‘likes’ Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood.)
Heather C
Hi! My children are 8, 6 and 3. My boys love to build with anything, especially Legos and blocks. They also love to draw and create things out of paper. My daughter loves to play with her animals and is just starting to play imaginatively. They all love stories too. Thank you for the great giveaway!
Heather C
I’m a fan of both sites on Facebook!
Christina
5 year old girl – magic wand
3 year old boy – sticks/rocks
Jen
How old are your children and what are their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play? – My son is 6. One of his favorite toys, that encourages imaginative play, are building blocks of all kinds! We love wood blocks, castle blocks, Legos, connecting blocks, etc.
Anina
I have 4 year old (almost 5) twin girls and a 2 year old son. Right now their favorite things to inspire their imaginations are some books and dress up costumes I’ve made for them!
Jill
My kids are 1, 4, 7, and 9. They all love dress-up, boxes, legos and dirt!
Cindy
my children are 8, 7, 3, & 8 months. They love art supplies, and cooking stuff! Their imaginations just run wild.
Cindy
Liked both facebook pages.
Krista M
2 kids at home (5 and 2) and one on the way in 2 weeks!! Our favorite toys are blocks (the kids never tire of them) and dress up clothes. Thanks for the fantastic giveaway!!
Vanessa
She is 6 and felt items work best for her
Carrie
Four kids…boys are 10, 7, and 4, and an almost 3 year old little girl. All of them, hands down, LEGOS.
Mary Ann
My boys are 9 and 7 and our youngest is a girl, just 5 months old. Imagination usually happens best with fort building supplies, stuffed animals, and dress up clothes. The baby loves soft things.
Heather M
My boys are 8, 6 and 2 and they are creative with art supplies and blocks and of course sticks!
Tracey
My children are 4, 6 & 8 and bin of costumes never gets old!
Christina Poulsen
I have 3 children currently (I am due with #4 in April) and they are 8, 4, and 2. By far the boys favorite toy (ages 2 & 4) is probably wooden blocks. It sounds kind of boring, but they build all day long, it’s so fun to watch! My 8 year old daughter is artistic and creative. She will take craft supplies and make the most awesome creations and toys!
Christina Poulsen
I am a fan of both on FB!
Jessie
My children are 3.5 and 6 and they love to draw and ‘sew’ and play make believe with their dolls and animal. We love Imagine Childhood… the book, store and blog!
Jessie
Liked!
Christine Dean
My daughters are 1 and 2. They are both very happy to “play” cooking in their kitchens, but prefer to help me with the real deal. My youngest is very creative and loves to play with animals while my oldest prefers to tell stories. 🙂
Christine Dean
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Amy B.
Ten kids here! I is all grown up with a newborn of her own and then I have ages 17 down to 11 months. My kids love to dress up and create imaginary worlds. The younger ones also love to pretend cook! They all love blocks and legos and realistic looking animals…my living room has been transformed into a zoo more than once! Thanks for the giveaway.
Amy B.
Liked both on FB.
Anjulie
I have 2 daughters aged 3 yrs and 3 months. My three year old loves her play kitchen, she loves to prepare tea and meals for the rest of us. The three month old loves anything she can put in her mouth, lol. 🙂 I plan on putting some of these beautiful toys and things on my Christmas list!
Anjulie
Oh and I liked both pages on FB, because I do like them. 🙂
caryn roberts
What an awesome giveaway! 10, 9, 7, 5, 2 are the ages and one of the items they have ALL played with imaginatively and continue to use are the wider glass stones (like fishbowl glass stones but 1 inch big) They have been jewels, money, mountains for tiny toys, game pieces for randomly generated games from elaborate to ‘hot/cold’) Simple fun.
meredith
My daughter is 6 years old. Her favorite imaginative toys are usually her animals (stuffed and wooden). She can endlessly tell stories with these simple toys. Thanks for the chance!
meredith
I also like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook. Thanks!
Sara
Four kiddos here, 12,10,9, and 6, the youngest is the only girl. Even though she likes her dolls, she plays swords and legos with her brothers all the time. They like to make their own board games too.
Sara
I also liked both Facebook pages, thank you!
Idaho Jill
My daughter is 7. Paper and colored pencils are of course a favorite, but she is also into dolls right now.
Idaho Jill
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Tracey
My kids are 3 and 16 months and they love our tickle trunk of costumes. It’s so cute to see the two of them dressed up and going on a pirate adventure, or riding a train.
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Tracey
Liked both on Facebook!
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Jamie
The ones still at home are 5, 7, and 14. Legos get a lot of action around here (especially for the 5yo boy), and crayons/pencils/paper are the 7yo girl’s favorite. My 14yo has done so much imaginative play over the years she still finds all sorts of creative, imaginative things to do, and helps the little ones come up with ideas, too — like Barbie dresses made from leaves, etc. It’s fun to watch. 🙂
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Laura
My son is almost 4 and his favorite toys are cars of all sorts and playdoh/clay.
Katherine
My kids are 5, 3, 18 months, and 2 weeks. The older two love Legos.
Rachel
I have 2 boys, 4 and 7. Large dirt piles and woods are the things that inspire the longest lasting and most imaginative play outdoors. Indoors any type of small vehicle or farm equipment.
Rachel
I have liked both on FB. Thanks!
Christy S
Mine are 1 and 3. For indoor play I’d say blocks and markers/paper. Outdoors it’s dirt, shovels, and buckets. Thanks!
Valerie W.
My kids are 11 and 8. They love legos and paper dolls for imaginative play.
Elizabeth
My kids are 5.5, 4, 2.5, and 1. The boys can make a bucket, shovel, and hammer quite exciting and my oldest girl loves to cook with anything she can find. The baby is interested in whatever is currently put away 😉
Elizabeth
Liked both on Facebook already!
Jamie
5, 4, and 2. Probably building planks, dress-up clothes, and toy vehicles are their favorites.
Jamie
Liked both on Facebook.
Shinsetsuna
I have 2 girls age 4 and 2. Our classic and favorite toy is Blocks of all kinds. Mostly wooden. Blocks promoted not only imagination but comprehension of math/geometry concepts.
Barbra C
I just have one little boy who turns 15 months on Saturday. He loves pots and pans, buckets and shovels, and his trusty spatula.
Barbra C
I liked both Facebook pages. 🙂
Laura
My children are 5 and 3. They get really imaginative with everything around the house! My 3yo loves cars, planes and books and my 5yo loves fairies.
Miet
My children are 4 and 2. Both love playing with their little kitchen, and my son is also very fond of “shopping” with his little shopping cart.
Lanelle
My 5 year old imagines with Legos all day, while my 3 year old is all about baby dolls. Thank you for the chance!
Rebecca Brewer
My girls are 2 1/2 and 4 and LOVE to play dress up. They would really enjoy this. Thank you!
Shala Clark
I have 2 little girls who would love this!
Lanelle
I liked both pages as well : )
Sarah Erickson
My girls are 8 and 4. My eldest loves weaving crafts, like loom bracelets and pot holders, and my youngest loves to play role playing games with her imagination and maybe with dressing up.
Rebecca Brewer
I like both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
Christine W
My kids are 4 and 2. Duplos get a lot of action, as do matchbox cars, and a simple flashlight!
Christine W
I liked both on Facebook!
Monica Nuss
My son is 17 and he builds spaceships with his legos. My 16 yr old and 14 yr old daughters read stories and writes them. My 8 yr old girl plays with legos, and reads books.
Ruvi
My kids are 5, 10 and 12. They love to play make believe, they put on plays, make arts and crafts or if recycled, everyday home items, dress up, play in the fort they built. The girls play with their dolls and make clothes for them out of scraps of fabric. My son likes play with Kinects, cardboard boxes, paper airplanes, balls, marbles, stones. They all love Legos.
Laura Aiuto
My children are 3 and almost 5. Some of the toys we like for imaginative play are blocks of all kinds, treasures from nature like sticks, nuts, and pinecones are our latest favorites, and play silks!
leah
My five are ages 10, 8, 6, 3 and 19 months and I have to say that the most imaginative toys that we have are simple wooden blocks. I found a set at an antique store for $15.oo years ago, and they have been the favorite of all of the kids!
Laura Aiuto
I like both sites on Facebook!
leah
I liked both pages on FB too. 🙂
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Corinne
1, 2, and 5…..sticks, dirt and gravel as always a good source!
Ruvi
I like both pages in Facebook.
Corinne
Liked simple homeschool 🙂
Jennifer H.
My sons are 7 and 9 and both have Autism. Imaginary play can be tough for them, but my sons love hats and costumes.
Jennifer H.
Liked both pages on FB – Jennifer Ann Hayden
Sarah
My kids are 6 and 4. They love most dolls, little wooden animals, legos, and forts made of couch cushions.
Cynthia
My children are 7, 4, 2, and a baby. Dress up and Lego are their two favourite imaginative ways to play. 🙂
Donna
My 2 year old is all about dolls and tigers right now and my 3 month old just likes to pull my hair. Thanks for the chance!
Claire
Mine are 2, 5, and 7. We homeschool and they play together so well. Their favorite toy by far is a piece of old climbing rope, purple and blue intertwined, about 4 feet long. This evening it was a cat leash and they were the cats.
Kelly
What a dream come true! I just spent hours browsing their store this week. My kids are 1, 4 & 6. They love capes, scarves, blocks & dolls for imaginative play.
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Amy
My children are 17, 15, 11, 9, and 7 and I think at our house it’s a tie for the favorite toys for creative play – their extensive dress up collection (a combo of play silks and years of dance performance costumes) and their peg dolls. Both are used constantly!
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Kate
My kids are ages 5, 4, 3, &1. Blocks & building toys as well as dress ups are big favorites here.
Amy
I have liked both sites on Facebook. Thanks!
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Kate
I also like both on facebook
Beth
My daughter is 16 months and uses scarves and her dolls for imaginary play.
Beth
I like simple homeschool and imagine childhood on facebook.
Lily
My boys are 6 and almost 2. Our giant basket of wooden blocks inspires a lot of imaginative play. Always the first thing I pull out when they are feeling “bored.”
Lily
I’ve liked both sites on FB 🙂
Aneeta Kasinathan
My kids are 4 & 1. The 4yo plays with boxes (car, bus, barney’s house) and he uses the inside roll from kitchen towels as his telescope. He then pretends to be on a jungle safari & names animals that he sees.
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suzanne
My kids are 4 and 2…I would say cardboard boxes are their favorite things for imagining with. 🙂
suzanne
liked Imagine Childhood
Bethany Mason
My daughter is 6 and my son is 3. They love building forts out of blankets and pillows. They also love building blocks, stuffed animals and dress up costumes!
suzanne
liked Simple Homeschool
Bethany Mason
I also liked IC and SH on facebook!
Emily
My daughters are 2.75 and 8 weeks. The older one’s most flexible toy is a piece of paper–she has one notecard that’s been “a camera” for about a month!
Meredith
My boys are 4, 2, and 1. The 4 year-old will literally pretend that anything is anything. (I’ve watched him act out intricate stories with the tokens from “Sorry”.) Both of the older boys love wooden trains and track, especially when the trains have names. The 2 year-old also loves puppets, as does the 1 year-old.
Cheryl
My 4 year old son likes dress up clothes and also using “found objects” to tell elaborate and silly stories!
Meredith
Also, I liked both of them on Facebook.
Helen Price
My granddaughter is 3, almost 4. We spend hours playing Dr Sydney, chasing imaginary pirates and monsters. We love to look at a piece of art and make a story to go with the picture. She is amazing and I am the luckiest Nana in the world.
Jennifer Schulz
My girls are ages 5 and 7. Some of their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play are big hollow blocks, fairies, and simple art supplies. I was just looking over the Imagine Childhood Look Book last night and fell in love with so many toys!
Tanya
Our children are 5, 3 and 1 1/2 yrs. We love trucks and dressing up. One toys that was a favorite for a while was a old tin that became a drum for the kids!
N. Masani Landfair
I found simple Homeschool through Imagine Childhood and have long liked both pages. I am a homeschooling Mother of a wonderful 8 year old Robot Making and Minecraft building 3rd grader. Thanks for 2 great pages and the opportunity.
Michele
We have many lovely toys from Imagine Childhood! They are such a great shop!
My son’s favorite imaginative play toys though are LEGO bricks. He’s playing with them now, creating robots and space adventures.
Michele
I love, not just like, both of you on Facebook. 🙂
Debbie
Our kiddos are 9, 7, 4 and 20 months. Their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play include a lot of things that aren’t toys at all…like cardboard boxes, child sized chairs, extra sheets etc. But they also love legos, train tracks, magnet blocks etc. They are always enjoying a grand adventure!!
cassie
My almost 3 year old daughter is a book fiend, but is most imaginative with dress up clothes or art supplies. My 2 month old is mostly into mobiles 😉 I would LOVE a chance to build our preschool playroom as we are just weeks away our second international move and have kept our pickings slim knowing that it was coming!
Melissa
My kids are 5, 7 and 8. They love Lego and blocks of all kinds. My daughter enjoys crafting and would do so all day if I let her! 😉
Melissa
I already like both on Facebook!
Jen
My children are 10, (almost) 8, 6, 3, 2 & 4 months. They love Lego and art supplies.
Jen
I like both on FB. 🙂
Sherri S
My children are 8 and 6 and their favorite toys are lincoln logs and dolls.
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Carrie White
My two year old son imagines with blocks, cardboard boxes, couch cushions, toy dinosaurs, books, and a toy golf club that can be a guitar, microphone, boat paddle, horse, vacuum, or whatever else strikes his fancy. 🙂
Carrie White
And I like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook!
Sherri S
I like both on facbook
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Jessica H
My sons are 3 and 1. My 3 year old love blocks and cardboard and anything with wheels.
Sarah
My children are 7, 5, 3, and 2. Their favorite things to encourage imaginative play are dress up clothes, microphones, books, dolls, and a bench or table that they pretend is a stage.
Britni Bradford
3 yr old loves dress up clothes, 8 month old not quite to imaginative play yet =)
Anjeanette
12, 10, 7, 3. Legos, markers, paper, and a play kitchen are the favorites at our house!
Margaret
My children are 7, 5, and 2. All three love dress-up (particularly capes or play silks) for imaginative play. The older two also love including their dolls, and the youngest loves his non-functioning old flip phone for long, involved conversations. 🙂 Thanks for the chance!
Margaret
I like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Julianna M
My boys are 4 & 2. They both love crafts and building things!
Rita Z
My daughter is 5.5; she loves crafts, puppets and telling stories. She also enjoys playing with doll houses (or similar set ups) and imaginary worlds (let’s pretend… ).
Amy
My girls are 7 & 10. They love to play with…each other! It doesn’t matter what you give them, if they’re together, they will have a blast.
Michelle
I have a 3 and 6 year old and they both love Legos, train sets and blocks. They are an everyday staple in our playroom.
Emily Stapley
My pack of boys, ages 8-12, love good old wooden blocks. But their new favorite is about to be your large pack of Sticklettes, can’t wait for Christmas!! We love you I.C.!
Michelle
I “liked” Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool 🙂
Susan
My children are 11, 10, 5, and 1 and they love sewing, lincoln logs, dress up, stuffed animals, and baby dolls.
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Gissel
My children are 6 and 4. They love cardboard boxes, our recyclables, dirt, playdoh and anything they can build or make crafts with. These things spark their imagination like nothing else. 🙂
Abbie
My daughter is 4 and loves to play outside and loves stories about animals. We love the fox mask!
Esperanza Gailliard
My children are 17, 10 and 7 and my two younger boys like to dress up and play around the house. They also like to use my old bags and pretend with them too. Anything interesting to them they will use.
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Esperanza Gailliard
I like Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook as well. Thank you and Happy Holidays!
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Summer Mccreless
We have two children, Lavender who is almost five and Sky who is 7.5. They love their silks and have played with them the most over the years out if any one item.
Wendy
My girl is 11 and I would have to
Say her best tool is nature – she loves the woods and can spend hours out there! We have created a nature bag that adds to her exploration and imagination thanks to your website!
Danielle
Evelyn, 6, enjoys imaginative play dressing up at every chance along with outdoor adventures in trees and creeks.
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Christine
My children are 11, 9, and 8. They still all use their play silks. They boys are drawn to anything they can build with and my girl is a always crafting with whatever she can find!
Christine
Like both on facebook!
Jennifer
My children are 11, 9, 9, 7, 4, 2, and tiny :). One of our favorite imaginative toys is our set of brio-type trains (all from the thrift store, of course!). They love setting up double and triple decker tracks all over the living room. (all of mine are girls, except the 2 year old, but they love trains as much as I did as a kid!)
Jennifer
I like you guys on FB.
Angela
My almost two year old gets his inspiration for imaginative play from our farm! He loves “run-running” like the cows and miming feeding grass to the pigs.
Angela
I like imagine childhood on Facebook!
Di Linh Reichman
My kids are 11, 9, and 5. Their favorite toys that inspire imagination include building blocks (wood and Lego), wooden trains and tracks, a play kitchen, and a wooden doll house.
Di Linh Reichman
I liked the pages on Facebook.
Andrea MM
My 8 yr old is into Lego building; my 6 yr old is into art and dress-up pretend play and my 4 yr old often play with his older siblings or when playing lone, often plays with his favorite Batman toys.
Ashley
My 3.5 yr old and 8 yr old girls love blankets and sheets to make forts, castles, spaceships, or school. My 3.5 yr old loves her baby dolls(or any stuffed animal) that she can take care of on her own just like mommy. My oldest is currently in to playing house or school(where she’s in charge) whether it’s with her sister or stuffed animals.
Ashley
Liked pages
Andrea MM
I absolutely ‘like” Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FB. Would love to win this, I’ve been drooling over Imagine Childhood products for a couple of months now!
Kim Lawton
My kids are 6 and 3 and their favorite imaginative toys are Lego’s and dress up clothes. Plus rocks and sticks! 🙂
Kim Lawton
I liked Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
Abby
My kids are 7, 5, 3, 2, and 4mo.
They love to dress up in their princess, knight, vet, and cowboy costumes and play!
Abby
Liked both on fb!
Stefanie A
My five year old loves building toys, his wooden train set, tents and forts, and pretend play with dress-up clothes and things like play swords. My two year old loves her dolls and anything art related. And they both LOVE their books and acting out the stories that we read.
Annette B.
My two boys are 7 and almost 3. They love stuffed animals, trucks, blocks of any kind, costumes, etc. They both have wonderful imaginations
Annette B.
I liked both on Facebook!
Pamela
I like Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
Pamela
I have a 7 year old girl and 4 year old boy. My kids enjoy draw supplies, paper, blocks, trains, and play tents.
yalisha case
My kids are 14, 8, 5, 2, and another will be here soon.
Our favorite imagination inspiring toys are the simplest- little wooden faceless figures, baskets of beautiful stones and sticks, stuffed animals that look almost real, a giant stack of floor cushions, colorful play cloths.
yalisha case
And I like both sites on Facebook!
Mandy
My children are 7,6, & 3. Play food, dress up clothes and legos
Fawn
My kids are four and eleven. Funny thing, they love boxes! They make homes for bugs, beds for dolls, they cut out doors and Windows and make barns and stables for all the play animals.
Thanks!
Fawn
Mandy
I have liked both on Facebook. Thanks for this opportunity!!!
Jamie
My daughters are 4 and 2. They love play silks and dolls. Thank you for sharing <3
Tiffanie
My girls (4&6) love animals of all varieties including stuffed animals, schleich plastic figurines, play mobile sets, calico creatures, etc. They love role playing as animals in costumes too!
Samantha
My children are 6 and 4. They like to imagine with blocks, Legos, dolls, and cars.
Samantha
Also…”like” both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook 🙂
Tiffanie
I also liked the Facebook pages
Sarah
My children are almost 9, 7, and 3. They love Legos, dress-up, vehicles, and animals. Thank you!
Sarah
I’ve liked both pages for a while now! 😉
DebbieKL
Great shop! I have three children – 7, and 3 year old twins. They’ve been pretty active with wood blocks lately building castles. The girls especially like pretending with dolls. Thanks!
Tika Buchanan
My boys are 10 and 9 and love legos, swords, nerf guns. Thr girls are 3 and 1 and it baby dolls and tea parties all the way.
Lauren E.
My daughter is 7, and its hard to get her imagination going. She likes to dress up to get into character. Then she is able to let free her mind
Anna Lillian Mercado
my son is 20 months and he loves anything with wheels. He is also starting to enjoy block building.
wyomama
Boys, 6, 4, 2 and 1!
Pretend play/dress up!
acmom
My littles are in preschool thru elementary gr— we love legos, stacking robots, dress up stuff, paints, and playdo! 😀
Grace
My daughter is almost 5. She loves her doll house, wooden blocks, and playmobiles.
Fay
My kids – boy, 9, girl 8 – love pretend play! Anything that can be turned into a costume or props – from old scarves to a cardboard box… they’ll use it.
Angela Rowland
Our kids are 6, 4, 2 and 8 months. They love costumes, blocks and anything that can be used as a toy sword 😉
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Angela R
I like both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook!
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KelM
My children are 5 and 8. For the older one it has been an assortment of wooden train tracks and trains, Kapla (and other) blocks, silk and cotton fabrics, string, paper, dirt, rocks and twigs, and for my younger one, all of the same, with the addition of dolls, , dollhouse, dress up, play kitchen (which til now has been a converted bedside table)
Cora
I have three wild animals with great imaginations! 🙂 … Riley 11, still loves to play with legos, is very creative with a sewing machine (I did not teach her that…. 😉 ), and loves to design clothes with a fun craft set my Mom got for her…she then makes cards for her friends with paper outfits that go with their individual personalities. Jacob and Hannah, 8 also both love legos and creating ‘houses’ for each others lego people. Jacob, of course, loves making space ships and has recently gotten hooked on building trucks with loooooong, very detailed camping trailers. LOL Hannah is my reader…she reads constantly, any and all kinds of books, from Magic Treehouse, to my Bible study books. They all love to play dressup and make up skits anytime we have a family gathering. Merry Christmas!
Cora
Liked Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood! 🙂
Suzanne
My kids are ages 5 and 2. They love to pretend with anything! Legos, costumes, teddy bear counters, etc. Whenever we finish reading a story, my 5 year old wants to involve the whole family to pretend it.
I have liked both Facebook pages. Thank you!
Brandy
We love blocks and trains at our house!
Trish
We love our dress up box! Endless fun!
Trish
Like both on FB
Cassie
My three year old loves her kitchen!
Stacey E
My kids are 11, 8 and 4. The 11 year old loves legos and reading. My 8 year old loves to draw and write her own books. My 4 year old loves pretending with her toy animals. They all like to build with wooden blocks and boxes to make cities for their toys.
Stacey E
Like you both on FB
Liz
My daughter is 5 and she LOVES silk scarves. In my opinion they are some of the best facilitators of imaginative play!
Liz
I like both sites on FB too!
Brooke
My children are four years, and ten months. My four year old loves her play kitchen, doll house dolls, and play scarves. She also loves to read, draw, and write her own books. My ten month old loves peg dolls, and toys with wheels.
Both children love playing outside more than anything, especially water play, and they share a love of music.
Thank you for the chance to win, and also for the coupon!
Brooke
I’m already following Simple Homeschool and Imagination Childhood on Facebook! 🙂
Christy B.
My kids are 7, 5, and one due in April! Right now, their favorite thing for imaginative play is their dress-up closet. Thanks for the giveaway!
Christy B.
I liked both pages on Facebook!
Michael Barton
My children are 8 and 2. My eight year old loves using sticks for imaginative play!
Kristy
My boys are 6 and 5. They love Legos, MagnaTiles, and old Halloween costumes for imaginative play.
Kristy
My children are ages 2, 4, 7, 9, 13 & 15. Imaginative play is a big part of their daily lives, from doll houses to dragon castles, dress up and lots and lots of books to expand their ideas and imaginative possibilities even more! 🙂 Thanks for this awesome giveaway!
Kristy’s latest post: Snug Little Snowman – Pattern Preview!
Kristy
I like both pages on facebook, Kristy Smith. Thanks again!
Kristy’s latest post: Snug Little Snowman – Pattern Preview!
Elisabeth
My children are 10, 6, 2, and 5 months old. The older two LOVE to build things with Legos! They have great imaginations and create all kinds of neat stuff! My two year old loves shampoo bottles and they are her “babies”! My 5 month old tastes EVERYTHING and also loves her toes! She also just learned to clap and is SO amazed that we know how to clap too!
Thanks for the giveaway. ~Elisabeth~
Nicolette
My daughter is two years old, and I have a little one on the way!
Cora loves to serve mud pies on the green tea set she has – she plays with it for hours outside 🙂
I’ve liked both Facebooks.
Thanks!
Nicolette’s latest post: 25 Natural Ornaments the Kids Will Love Making!
April
My kids favorite toys that inspire imaginative play are;
10yo – legos
9yo- dress up clothes
3yo- sand table, dress up clothes and playfood
April
LIked Imagine Childhood and SImple Homeschool via Facebook, thanks for the chance to win!
Carmen N
Almost 4; she loves any type of little figurine or anything that could be a “person” including sticks, pencils, etc.
Carmen N’s latest post: FO Friday – baby washcloths
Carmen N
I already like both on Facebook
Natalie
I LOVE their stuff!
Natalie’s latest post: Colombia!
Natalie
I forgot to answer the question! My girls are 12 and they love art, knitting, and dress up (still!).
Natalie’s latest post: Colombia!
Kim
My kids are 4, 9, and 12. A blank piece of paper works for them!
Lana
My kids are 7,5 and 3. Dress up clothes, knight armor, swords, fences and horses.
Jessa
My kids are really really into paper right now–age 9 and 7!
Andrea
My seven and five year old love paper and scissors. Any kind of paper will do! Colored pencils are an extra bonus.
Katrina
6 children from age 15 down to age 3…
They love costumes, natural elements (sticks, dirt, rocks, feathers), crafty things (markers, colored paper, hole punches, yarn), and good books to fuel their imaginations.
Katrina
I already “like” Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on FB
Wendy
My children are 14, 13, 12, 5, 20 months, and 5 months. Their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play are instruments. They can all get together or hang out by themselves playing their instruments. They write songs, have talent shows, and just have a great time.
Wendy
I liked Imagination Toys and Simple Homeschool on FB!
Sara S.
My girls are 2 and 5. They love to play doctor and tea time with their playsets!
Sara S.
I liked you both on Facebook!
Jessica
My kids are 6, 3, and 2. Right now, my oldest loves drawing and that’s where he’s spending his moments. My younger two love playing camping and going over the mountains with their blankets, bunk bed, and wooden play food.
Jessica’s latest post: Black Friday Deals for Kiwi Crate & Little Passports
Jessica
I like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool.
Jessica’s latest post: Black Friday Deals for Kiwi Crate & Little Passports
Amelia
My children are 6.5 and 4, and the dress up every day. They also love baby dolls and any accessories they can use to play house, inspired by their two-week old sister.
Amelia’s latest post: Who is it?
Meg
I love imagine childhood! The blocks are beautiful!
Amelia
I liked both pages on facebook!
Amelia’s latest post: Who is it?
Laura
My boys are 6 and 9. My older son loves art, esp. drawing. They both love making forts out of anything they can find & then reading inside the cozy space.
Laura
And I “like” Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Melinda
Liked both pages on Facebook!
Melinda
My son is 6 years old and he loves playing pretend all the time…he particularly likes to re-enact anything we read about in books, so he uses a lot of toy animals for this.
Stephanie Olmsted
My kids are 11, 5, & 10 months. Best place for imaginative play is outside. Also horses.
Stephanie Olmsted
Like both on Facebook
Katie L
My little guy is almost 7, and my girl is 3. Both of them absolutely LOVE building blocks, of any kind! We have some nice wooden ones, but also a bunch of TRIO blocks. It’s a bummer they don’t make the TRIO blocks anymore because they are awesome!
Katie L
I already “liked” both of those Facebook pages! 🙂
Rebecca S
My kids are 6 and 2 and they like lego and play dough and foam building blocks.
Rebecca S
I like both on Facebook.
beth
My children are 2 and (almost!) 5 and they *love* to dress up, especially as superheroes, so capes, masks, and such are their favorite right now.
beth
I have liked both pages on fb.
Tara
My boys are 5, 3, and 1. So far they love Legos and magnets!
Tara
Liked!
Erica
My son Is 2 and I also have a 7 month old. My little boy will play with his matchbox cars all over the living room using all the furniture and space for his imaginative play.
Liza
I have a 5 yr. old daughter who loves playing dress-up and using her brother as a pet dog. My 3 yr. old son loves collecting and playing with sticks (super heroes, fort building, swords, etc.) and play dough.
Erica
I liked the facebook page.
Sara
My daughter just turned 2 and her favorite ways to use her imagination seem to be with her babies and with her play kitchen…and sometime with them all together, making treats and drinks for her babies, feeding them, cleaning them up…it really is one of my favorite things to watch. She’s just recently started telling us what she is drawing when she asks for crayon time and it’s always so interesting to hear what those swirls and lines are meant to be from her perspective…never gets old! We have another baby expected in February and I’m excited to see her imagination grow as well.
Sara’s latest post: A Year of Projects: Projects 34, 35, 36 & 37
Sara
I have liked both facebook pages as well.
Sara’s latest post: A Year of Projects: Projects 34, 35, 36 & 37
Liza
p.s. I “liked” both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
Krissy
My son is 7, and sometimes it is literally the card board boxes that arrive and turn into a suit of armor, or whatever comes to his imagination.
Charis
My kids LOVE imaginative play, inside and outside! Inside they love dress-up, legos, blankets for tents/forts, stuffed animals, play food and kitchen. Outside is dirt, buckets, rope, anything they can find!
Cindy
I have a 4 year old and 10 year old. The little one loves dolls and animals, the smaller the better. She talks with them all day long. The 10 year old loves making up games with the neighborhood kids outside. They create worlds and businesses and adventures and just go and go.
Svetta
My lovely children are 4,2,& 5 months almost. Simple things engage their imagination such as a blanket for a cape, jump rope as climbing rope, and legos.
Svetta
I clicked like on both pages! Thank you!
Jamie
I have a three year-old daughter and 8 month old son. Anything seems to spark my son’s imagination at this point. My daughter loves blocks, beads, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, anything small and open-ended brings on imaginative play.
Marla
My children are ages 4,5,6,8,9, and 11. I have to say paper is the all time creativity toy winner for my kids creative play. Lego blocks would come in second. But paper can be anything. Tissue paper has been taped onto backs to make colorful capes. Paper has been rolled and taped to make swords, lots of variants here, long swords, swords with handles, daggers (I almost forgot to mention the matching shields). Paper can be cut and taped onto a shirt for just about any kind of a hero you could want to be. Once I bought a gigantic pack of construction paper from Costco and thought it would last forever. A year later I was buying another. We often don’t think of paper as a toy, but my children certainly do, and have spent endless hours shaping it into exactly what they need it to be at that moment.
jill
liked you on fb! I am a mother of 5 that homeschooled my children 25 years ago. Now my grandchildren are 7, 2, 2 and 2 with 3 on the way. The grandchildren will be homeschooling also. We love to play with wooden blocks and love books! Thank you for all of your inspirational posts!
Sheri
Legos inspire my 7 year old boy to build and create anything he can imagine. My 3 year old can imagine any objects into a vacuum, blower, tractor… Basically, anything with a motor.
Marina A.
My boys are 8, 4, and 2 days old! 🙂
Sticks, silks, and Legos. All day, every day!
Marina A.
I follow both on FB.
Brandy
I have a 7, 4 and 1 year old. Favorite items would be blocks and silks.
Brandy
I like imagine childhood on FB.
Brandy
I liked Simple Homeschool on FB.
Kristin
I like Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook. ☺
Kristin
My kids are 10 months, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 14. They love dress up. They put on plays, act out their favorite books or movies and just have so much fun!
Melanie
My kids are 6, 2, and 2. Their favorite toys that encourage imaginative play are blocks.
Melanie
Liked both on facebook
Shaela haney
Mine are 9,7,5,3. Legos, Barbies, and toy cars are their favorites. Costumes galore too!