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 200 pages of inspiring and thoughtful gifts, it’s our largest collection yet.
We’ve spent the last eight 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 here and our recent book, IMAGINE CHILDHOOD: Exploring the World Through Nature, Imagination, and Play- 25 Projects that spark curiosity and adventure, can be found here.“
And now for the fun part:
Today one lucky Simple Homeschool reader will win a $100 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 the question: How old are your children and what are their favorite toys that inspire imaginative play?
(Note: This giveaway IS open internationally–yay overseas readers!)
(If you’re reading this via email or reader, you must click here to leave your comment on this post at Simple Homeschool. Comments or emails left elsewhere don’t count as entries.)
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 readers 10% off all Imagine Childhood orders through Dec. 8, 2015!
Just use the discount code “simplehomeschool” at checkout.
This giveaway has ended, and the winner is Heather Curry, who wrote: “My kids are 9, 7 and 4. They’re inspired by Legos, blocks, construction paper and clay. They love to draw and investigate the world around them. Thank you for the giveaway!”
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I have two boys–ages 4 and 2–and they have active imaginations! The youngest makes elaborate meals with his small dishes set and turns everything into a vacuum to be “just like mama”. The eldest Ioves his machines, and there are construction sights everywhere!
My children are 10, 9, 6, and 3. Legos or the creek for the boys and stuffed animals for the girl.
My boys are 5 and 7. They love Legos and anything that allows them to build contraptions.
We just moved aboard our sailboat and so my eight and three year olds have only a few toys. Playsilks and blocks get daily use for their wide variety of games.
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2. An old ice cream tub with a handle. They generally carry it around like a purse and go visit friends, filling it with all sorts of treasures.
My kids are 6 and 4, and they use cardboard boxes and construction paper for their creations.
My kids are 5, 3, and 1. Some of their favorite toys are a retired sheer curtain and a play silk which are everything from a train to a ghost costume to a river. Also plain unit blocks which can be basically anything as well as form parts of elaborate construction sites!
My eleven year old loves to create little houses for dollhouse dolls to live in.
9,7,5
Legos and plastic animals and blocks
My boys are 8, 6, 4, and 1. Legos are a huge thing in our house right now but they like to combine them with blocks too.
My kids are 2, 4, and 6. They all love Legos. They’ve been playing with silly putty every day this week.
My kids are 7, 6, and 1 and art supplies of any kind keep them busy for ages!
My 5& 7 year old love their wooden blocks, Magna tiles, and a set of wooden chess pieces. They use all three together and spend hours playing “chess pieces” which has nothing to do with the game of chess.
My child is 7 and her dress-up drawer sees the most action. This is closely followed by the menagerie of stuffed friends who all require housing, clothes, and meals of their own.
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My children are 6, 3, and 1 and I just set up a pretend kitchen in our garage that they are loving right now. I’ve been taking clean, empty containers from food products to stock their kitchen supplies!
My girls are 8 and 6, and my boys are 4 and 3. The girls love their dress up clothes, cash register and stuffed animals/dolls for imaginative play. My boys love their legos, toy cars/trucks, and dress up clothes for imaginative play.
We love Imagine Childhood! My daughter is almost 5, and dress up clothes are her favorite imaginative play items right now.
I like Simple HOmeschool and Imagine Childhood on facebook.
My 5 and 7 year old love Legos and Magna-tiles.
My boys are 8, 6, and 4. They love legos, blocks etc anything to build with!
My kiddos are 13, 10, 6. Art supplies, cardboard, Magna-tiles, blankets! Thanks for the chance.
My 5, 3, 2, and 1 year old love their playsilks and peg people 🙂
My kids are 4, 7, and 9. We play with legos, blocks, stuffed animals and build things outside. Thanks for the give-away!
I liked Simplehomeschool and Imagine Childhood Toys on Facebook.
My kids are 13, 11, 8. They are inspired by legos, dolls, and nature.
Thanks!
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My Kids are 6, 4 and 1. Anything that you can build with.
Well, my babies are 30, 29, 26, 24, 24, 22, 19, 15, 14, 10 and 7. It’s always been dress up clothes, Legos, my furniture (forts, palaces, etc.) and anything outside. Thank you for the giveaway!
I have 2 children (11 and 12) and a little boy on the way. My son loves science investigations and my daughter enjoys arts and crafts. Thank you for this opportunity!
My boys are 5 and 4 and for them any cardboard box, plain paper and some crayons create the most imaginative play
Oh, what a great giveaway! Thank you so much for the chance – Imagine Childhood is one of my favorites. 🙂
My kids favorite imaginative playthings are plain old blocks & wooden people/animals. They’ve really stood the test of time & the kids bring them out every day. xo
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6, 5 and 1. They all love Magformers!
My kids are 10, 8,5,3 and 8 months. It seems any block or random piece of material becomes items in the girls’ kitchens, and the 2 littlest girls love filling any bag they can find with items to take on their “trips”.
My kids are 8, 5, and 3. For the oldest, a notebook and pen will keep her busy for hours, the middle one loves any kind of art supplies, and the 3 year old loves to play with trucks and cars.
I have four kiddos, 8,7,5,and 4. They all love animals. So, animals in any form (lizards in the back yard, plastic or stuffed toys, etc ) always kick start their imagination.
My kids are five, three, and one. Their favorite imaginative play involves their toy kitchen and all the dishes and food! Next favorite is whenever something comes in a big box, it becomes a restaurant, a race car, etc.!
6 and 4, dress up clothes and any character any character style toy.
Thanks for this great giveaway. My kids are 3, 5, and 7 and they love playing outdoors. A downed tree is their fort and they create all kinds of worlds. They also love their little kitchen where they love to play house and restaurant.
My child is two, and currently a large stuffed bear has to do everything we do.
My children are nearly 3, and 6 months. My 3 year old loves imagining with her doll and stuffed animals, usually replaying stories from the books we read. Also loves dress up!
I liked Simplehomeschool and Imagine Childhood Toys on Facebook.
My children are 7, 10, and 12. They love open-ended materials that can be used in any way that suits their imaginations!
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My 6 and 4 love building all sorts of things with Legos.
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Interestingly enough they use this box of puppets a puppeteer gave us for imaginative play. Sometimes the stuffed animals make an appearance too. I am always amazed at how – even at 9 and 11 – they go back to these as a way to entertain each other and small children who come to visit.
I have a 2 year old amd 7 month old, Jackson and Mya, respectively. Jackson is very active. Currently he likes moving logs from our wood pile to make pretend fires. He also loves to pretend to cook/bake things in the oven. He really enjoys learning about and using real tools/utensils.
My children are 7 and 18 months. They both love blocks of almost any kind and playsilks.
I liked your simple homeschool page and imagine childhood page also!
My kids go “traveling” almost everyday. They spend time packing and getting their family ready then load up in their car (the sofa with pillows positioned as seats) and take a trip.
My children are six, eight and nine years old. They like to play with super low tech toys (a roll of aluminium foil) and super high tech toys like programable robots. This Christmas will be so much fun
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My kids are 3, 5, and 7. They love to play with Legos and Duplos. And they also get a lot of entertainment out of blank pieces of paper, and pencils.
Our girls are 8 and 5 (6 on Thursday!) and love their felt and wooden fruits and veg. They love dress up time, too! Thank you for the chance to win!
My older kids are 11, 9, and 6. Their imaginations go wild with building tents in the family room, finding sticks for pretend battles in the yard, and with Legos.
My daughter is 7. She loves having tea parties with all her animals. It’s the sweetest thing to watch her.
My kids are 9, 7, 5, 3, & 1. The older 4 love playing with their Lego sets and also making things out of cardboard & duct tape. They sometimes spend all day on just those 2 things. The 1 year old already loves to do imaginative play with the pretend kitchen toys. 🙂
I like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on fb.
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2, 5, and 9 y/o boys, they love wooden blocks, legos, play animals, and the great outdoors.
We have not been able to afford Imagine Childhood for several Christmases now, but I love the blog and draw so much inspiration for the shop! My kiddos are 2, 7, 12, & 17. This would be an amazing Christmas surprise!
My kiddos are 7,5 & 3 a boy and 2 girls. They are inspired by the recycling box, our recent move to the country/homestead and the classic stories from our sonlight curriculum.
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My kids are 11,8,6, and three. They love sticks,and pieces of wood to shape into toys. They also love old clothing and anything old-timey. They also love the binoculars my father in law gave us.
My kids range in age from 10-18. Stuffed animals, costumes, Legos, swords are all used for imaginative play at our house. Along with lots of art supplies.
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My kids are 3&5 and are in their own world of imaginative play from the moment they wake until it’s time for bed. They love pretend play with everything from their dress up clothes to umbrellas to their baby dolls and stuffed animals.
My daughter is 10 and loves the house her daddy built for her but it’s not a doll house, her Wind Dancers live in it 🙂
My boys are 8 and 6, they love dress up, legos, and the castles their daddy built.
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My kids are 2 months, 6 years, almost 11 years (his birthday is tomorrow) and 12 years old. They love legos.
My children are 7, 5, 4, 2, and 2 months. They love to play with wooden blocks.
My daughter is 5, and she loves her magnetic fridge letters!
My kids are 15, 10 and 7. Lego, stuffed animals, paper,cardboard,tape and string are there favourite toys for imaginative play 🙂 Thanks so much for the great giveaway!
Our children are 6 and 8 and love to pretend. It is their default status. Items that inspire instant pretend play are Laundry basket, Duplo, Lego, long ribbons, goggles, safety glasses, bed sheets, and ribbon wand. This catalog is incredible and so inspiring to go build a fort today. Thank you!
My boys are 6, 4 and 1. They love sticks, mud and snow. Indoors their current favorites are blocks and art supplies/the recycling bin.
My gals are 7,4 and 6 mo. Hands down, our blocks are used most for imaginative play!
My kids are almost 4 and almost 1. The older one’s favorite toy for imaginative play is her doll, Buttercup. Buttercup was a gift from an elderly neighbor before we moved into our new house. This was the doll her adult grandchildren used to play with and Buttercup is still a huge hit a year later. The younger one’s favorite game involves just her finger. She tells us “Ahhh” till we open our mouths, then peeks around with that finger to see if we have anything in there. Just like we do with her!
My children at 12, 10 and 8. Building toys and stuffed animals spark imaginative play in our home.
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My son is 6, he loves playing with blocks, animals, and anything dinosaur. 🙂
My sons are 8 and 11 they love wood blocks, Kapla planks, and Legos. They still love sticks which they turn into anything.
My kids are 6, 3, and 1. They love their art supplies right now and are always creating pictures.
My kids are 6, (almost) 4 and 2. Believe it or not, but a box has always inspired my kids with days of play! Along those same lines a cardboard and duct tape sword and shield has been a wonderful addition to my oldest’s imagination.
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My kids are 9,8, 6, and 4. They all love playing with Lego, and it’s one of the few things they can get along doing together.
My kids are 7, 5, almost 3, and 9 months. Their favorite imaginative toys are wooden blocks, dolls, and their dollhouse. Thank you for this giveaway!
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My boys are 2 & 4 and they love to use blocks of all kinds, lids, and all kinds of containers when they play. They always surprise me with what these things become in their imaginative play.
My kids are 6, 4, and 9 months. Their favorite imaginative play item, hands down, is couch pillows. Can’t keep them on the couch! Forts, castles, caves — those pillows are everything! 🙂
I also like Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on facebook.
I have an 11 year old who can take a rock, stick, or acorn and create fantastic stories and creations!
I have 4 children 12,10,6,3. They like to play with magforms, tractors, and my daughter loves her play kitchen
I also liked imagine childhod and simple homeschool on Facebook
I have two boys – ages 9 & 12. I gotta say Legos are still the go-to imaginative play toy!
MY son is 11 and still like to play with his stuffed dogs. We also have a lot of younger nieces and nephews here- they like dishes/play foods, Lego, trains, and Playmobil.
My kids are 5,3,and 1. They love playing Legos, with our play kitchen, and combining random toys to create new cities for their small characters to play in.
Our kids are a spread: 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18… and they all love the great outdoors… Best most useful/versatile toy ever: A stick!!!
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My Littles are 9, 5 & 3. They love anything that they can build from — wooden blocks, Magnatiles, popsicle sticks, Legos, you name it!
PS: I just “liked” Imagine Childhood & Simple Homeschool on FB. Thanks! 🙂
My kids are 13,11 and 3. Building toys have always inspired imaginations around here, and play silks.
My daughters are 10 & 8, and my son is 3, and the whole lot of them are obsessed with Legos. They create lengthy back stories to the inhabitants of entire civilizations, spending hours sifting through the bin of plastic bricks. As a mommy, I love the open ended, imaginative play. These toys also look awesome!
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We LOVE Imagine Childhood….love their life-like plushies and get one every Christmas. 🙂
My kids are 6 and 8 and they are usually most inspired to play imaginatively when it comes to their numerous stuffed animals, and also the little wooden kitchen nook we have set up for them. I get free meals at my son’s cafe all the time. 😉
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Kids are 14, 13, 10, 9, 6, 3, 1. We love all building toys, like blocks, legos, pullies, pvc pipes. We also love things we collect in the woods to create with and left overs from cutting our wood supply.
Liked both simple home school and imagine childhood on facebook.
My boys are 10 and 9 and they play for hours either outside in our wooded area or inside with Legos. My girl who is 12 will loose herself in any type or art supply.
My children are 11, 8, 6, 3, and 3. … they love to play in the woods – but they also love simple wood blocks and legos.
Mine are 16, 14, 11, 9, and 6. Those littlest ones love to play with game pieces from our games and lose them all over my house!
My two-year-old loves dress up clothes and my four-year-old loves drawing.
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My kiddos are 31, 30, 23, 23, 17 and 7. The last two are boys, hard-to-handle boys of about the same age developmentally. We do not have any working TV and don’t want one. My boys do imaginary play, but are not great at imagination outside. And I am an older mom, who is not successful at interesting them in imaginary play. I’d love the help!
I have two girls: the oldest is almost three and little sister is five months. My big girl loves to build with her blocks and create fantastic scenes for her trains and little animals. Her play scarves also inspire dancing, cooking activities (as an apron), act as blankets for her babies, and many other wondrous uses.
Thank you for this opportunity and the discount code!
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My boys are 15 & 18. Legos have been the go to for years and years. My daughter is 6 yrs old. She loves creating stories with paper and pens & paints & blocks with stones and little people are also a favorite.
My kids are 12, 11, 9, 7, 4, and 2. The toys that inspire their imaginations the most are their stuffed animals. They build forts for them, arrange picnics, take them to outer space, etc. Right now they are busy sewing clothes, sleeping bags, and whatever else they can come up with for their stuffed friends.
My kids are 9, 2, and 4 months. LEGO, cardboard boxes, paper, stuffed animals, whatever strikes their fancy and can be used in their play. Though admittedly the 4 month old is too busy drooling to get into what his sister and brother are doing 🙂
My 12 year old loves building with LEGO bricks. But he also enjoys acting out stories with his stuffed animal collection. Each one has a name, a voice, a personality and a backstory which influences how each takes part in the stories he creates.
My little one is 2 and she loves her block crayons and “cooking ” snacks for mommy and daddy with her little sets of pretend food.
I already like Simple Homeschool on FB.
The children still at home in my house are 17, 11 and 6yo twins. Our favorite toys are wooden blocks. We have several styles that serve as castles, boats, skyscrapers, or anything else. A few animals or little people and there’s no limit! Dress up is a close second at our house. Even the big kids love to get into the dress up closet!
My children are 8, 5, and 3. They love to built forts with blankets and chairs! Simple!
I like both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook.
My children are 8, 11, & 13. They love building blocks, stuffed animals, & anything they can use to play Little House on the Prairie!
My boys and 4 and 2. My 4 year old constructs all sorts of roads, bridges and tunnels with his wooden blocks and also is frequently a kitten. My youngest turns everything into a “ticklebike”(motorbike)
I have a 5 and 2 year old. The 5-year old is very much into building and engineering projects that result in working machines. My 2-year old loves stuffed animals and imaginative play to do with caring for them. Happy Holidays!
My son is 5 and he loves dress up costumes and anything that he can build!
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My boys are 7 & 5. Legos are probably the toy(s) that inspire the most imaginative play with them 🙂
My 12 kids are ages 0-15, and it is our 3 costume bins that inspire the most creative play of all.
My children are 17, 14, 11, 7 and 5. Our favorite toys have definitely been Legos, wood blocks, scooters, stuffed animals, and play mobil.
Ages 7 years old and 18 months old. They love to imagine with dolls and play silks.
My girls are 2 and 7 and they love setting up scenes with their stuffed animals and acting them out. It’s a real joy to watch!
My son is 8 and he can’t get enough lego time but then when we are outside he plays and collects sticks and acorn hats and rocks like there’s no tomorrow. Thank you!!
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My children are 3 and 6 months and the 3 year olds favorite toys are open ended like blocks, Legos, and random things like boxes that can be made into anything! The 6 month old…well, she just likes to pull mommys hair. 😉
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My grandchildren are 9, 5, just about 3, and 2. 1 girl and 3 boys. They love building things, pushing little cars around everywhere, exploring the creek, playing the cello, the piano, working puzzles, and running up and down the 3 flights of stairs.
Children- 16,15, and 6. 6 yr olds favorite toy is the bottom half of a bug catching net. That “stick” is carried around every where and gives him hours of fun.
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I have a 7 year old that loves building toys!
12, 8, 5, 3, & 1 month
Our favourites are dress up, silks, and baby dolls.
My kiddos are 11, 8, 6, and 2. Even with a wide range of ages, the one thing that everyone enjoys for imaginative play is costumes.
My son is nine, and his favorite toys for imaginative play are Legos and stuffed animals.
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My girls are 6, 3 and 7 months. The toys that inspire the most play right now is their play silks! My 3 year old is pretty much always using them or wearing them.
My kids are 8, 7, 5, & 2. They live playing with blocks–Duplo, wooden, & Legos are their favorite.
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My children are 6, 5, and 3. They play with their building toys a lot, making up stories to go with what they are building.
What beautiful toys! My children are 6, 4, and 1. They love playing with magnatiles and dress ups.
My kids are 3 and 5 and they love any type of building toy.
My children are 14 and 7. The eldest is mostly into basketball and baseball, while the youngest enjoys building with blocks, Legos, Picasso Tiles, anything–he’s my little architect!
Also, I just “liked” Imagine Childhood on FB. I’ve already been reading Simple Homeschool for a while and “liked” you long ago! 🙂
I have three littles and they all love their kitchen!
I have 10, 8, 6, 5, 3, 22 months and 2 months. I have to say that Duplos and Legos are the main toys. I find them all over the house!
Our kids are 2.5, 5 & 7. Right now kitchen play, legos and family snowball fights are our go to play
My kids are 6, 4, and 21 months. They adore stuffed animals and I am always surprised how long they can play and how in depth they can go with their imaginations. Tea parties, school, and jungle are just a few of the worlds they enter with their animals.
My boys are 5, 3, 2, and 3 weeks old. Over the summer, we invested in the single best creative, open-ended toy we’ve ever owned…. a giant box of “Classic” Legos. These are not specialized pieces that come with directions; they are basic blocks, with just enough fun stuff thrown in to spark creativity. My boys have made houses, gardens, all manner of vehicles and creatures . . . you name it, they have created it . . . and made up a backstory for it, too.
Also, I “liked” both of you guys on FB a while ago. 🙂
Hi, my kiddies are 8,6 & 3. For imaginative play they love sheets, blankets, pegs, chairs, tables and anything else for making huts! Boxes, biiig boxes. Wandering in the woods and if course Lego for quiet times.
My kids are 8, 5, 3, and 1, and dress up costumes are involved in most of their imaginative play – especially swords and wands!
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It sounds odd but my two oldest boys, 5 and 8, love to play with sports trading cards. They make up these elaborate card games, make up imaginary games with the “players”, and are constantly talking numbers and stats. They are cheap, portable, and require interaction with another human! LOL!
My kids are 3 & 5 – and we love our magnatiles/picasso tiles – and dress up clothes!
My kids are 8, 6, 5, 2, and 1. Their favorite imaginative toy is their doll house.
Our boys are 7 and 9 and they can take their imaginations and build shops, mansions, and houses, with several SMALL pieces of wood and a hammer. They dig holes and make “steps” to the their dirt basement. I do enjoy watching this process.
My son is 5 and he uses an old tricycle to be all kinds of vehicles outside. It’s been everything from a tractor to a riding lawnmower to a cotton picker to an excavator.
My girls are 8 & 11. The 8 year old loves to play with her 18 inch dolls. This fall both girls had so much fixing up an old shed into a playhouse.
My children are 9 & 12. The items that inspire imaginative play most are their homemade oversize boffer weapons, and stuffed animals. Definitely have not outgrown stuffed animals yet 🙂
My daughters are 2 and 4. They love playing with dishes, play dough, and pretending that all sorts of objects are people…yesterday two spoons were having quite the conversation!
I’ve liked Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook, too!
My kids are 9, 7 and 4. My son loves to play with Lego, he builds spaceships, spinning tops, robots, just about anything. My older daughter loves anything to do with horses and has imaginary games with her toy horses, as well as building jumping courses in the yard out of chairs and gardening tools. My youngest loves playdoh, particularly pretending she runs a pizza restaurant, or a bakery. I liked both Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on FB
My girls are 8 and 5, and their favorite imaginative play toys are dress up, legos, and dolls.
My children are 13,10,8,7,7&2 🙂
They have the most fun making bug and lizard houses, planters, and an assortment of other things with several bricks left over from building our home. They can play for hours.
I follow both of you on FB
My girls are ages 8 and 5. They love to play fairies, using the most interesting containers and random objects to create their houses and set the scene.
I follow you both on FB.
My son is 6 and my daughter is 4. They both love building things, with magna-tiles, Legos, blocks, etc. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
My kids are 6 and 4 – they love building with anything – legos, magformers, tinker toys. And they love play-doh and art supplies.
My daughter is 4 years old and loves playing playdough, any kind of building activity (LEGO, Tinker Toys, blocks) and dolls or Barbies.
I’ve liked Imagine Childhood & Simple Homeschool on Facebook.
My kids are 9, 5, and 1 and anything that can be used as dress up or forts as well as tiny animals are perennial favorites! We love your products!
My girls are 5, 4 and 1.
We love crafting items as well as blocks, our train set and books. The girls also enjoy cooking in their kitchen, as well as helping me in our real kitchen. ????
My kids are ages 6 and 7. Their favorite toys that inspire imagination are blocks, nesting dolls, anything stackable, and Legos or Duplos.
My kids are 6, 5, 4, 3, 1 and 5 months. Probably building blocks and magnets are the biggest things for imagination. They also enjoy drawing and crafts.
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My kids are 6,4,3,1.5 and 3 weeks
Toys that they love to imagine with include, cars, wooden toy furniture, blankets, sticks and balloons:)
My kids are 6, 4 and 1. Crayons, tape, scissors, cardboard etc.
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Our children are ages 6, 11, and 13 and they love building blocks and building bricks of all sizes. And lately, they have made good use of a refrigerator box!
My boys are age 8, 5 1/2, and 2. Their favorite thing right now for imaginative play right now is blankets and silks for fort building along with furniture items they can move and cushions they can play with. They make lots of forts, houses, planes cars and such out of these and the play just takes off.
I have already liked both simple homeschool (which if there was a LOVE button I would love it!) and I have liked imagine childhood. ????????????
My boys are big into Lincoln Log constructions right now; daughter was recently gifted several of her grandmother’s old round dance dresses and petticoats which are used for imaginative dance productions, princess play, tea parties etc.
My son is 4 and is most imaginative with anything natural – sticks, rocks, moss, creeks, logs, snow, etc!
My kids are 8, 4, and 2 and they love their wooden building blocks for imaginative play
My kids age are 13, 11, 9, 6, 4 and 2 years old. My oldest likes to explore science and engineering, my second boy has big imagination that he aplies to drawing, Lego creations, scratch and minecraft. My next child- DD is very crafty curious to learn a new skill, my second DD likes to beautify things- a future designer, my third DD is a keen observer – all little creatures love her! My little one is very active and does learn a lot from the older children.
I did liked Simple Homeschool and Imagine Childhood on Facebook. Thank you!
My kids are 12,9, and 5. They can have fun playing with boxes, legos, and building inventions from recycled stuff!
8, 6, and 2. Dress-up inspires the most imaginative play around here.
My kiddos are 7, 6, 4 (triplets), 3, and 20 months. They all love playing dressup!
My kids are 20, 17, 15, 8, 7, 5 and 1. The boys in particular love Legos and the like for building whatever they can dream up. This year all my littles are really enjoying painting and drawing and cutting!
I liked Imagine Childhood on Facebook!
My daughter is 2 and her favorite is anything she can call baby. And balls.
I also like simple homeschool and imagine childhood on facebook.
My children are four and one. My four year old daughter loves playing with her stuffed animals for imaginative play and my son plays with cars and a toy register with coins.
My kids are 6, 5, 3, and 1. They love reenacting things they’ve read about, so books are definitely a big part of their imaginative play. They also love dressing up, whether with hats or purses or scarves or ropes they make into lassoes…
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My children are 7, 5 and 2. They love to play imaginatively together! They love play silks and art supplies and they love books a lot!
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My kids are 9, 7 and 4 and their favorite imaginative toys are probably Legos mixed with Playmobil or stuffed animals.
I like simple homeschool on facebook.
I like both Imagine Childhood and Simple Homeschool on FB!
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My daughter is two, and her favorite imaginative play these days is with her toy kitchen and toy food.
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Lego men, army men, dolls, kitchen toys, stuffed animals.
My children are 11, and 13. They love lego’s, stuffed animals and being outside. Love the picture of the sheep 🙂 Thanks for doing this!
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My boys are 1 1/2, 3, 6, and 8. They love lego duplos, clothespins, boxes of all shapes and sizes, costumes, and anything they can turn into robots.
My sons are 2, 6, and 12. They like play with their kitchen and fort.
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My son is seven, my daughter is four– they love playing with blocks— still!!! They bike cities, castles, train station… I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of our simple wooden blocks.
My beautiful children are 4,7 and 9. The little two use everything creatively: cuisenaire rods become cakes but animal toys become counting and sorting manipulatives ! Miss 9 is an avid reader so she loves creating long complicated stories for the play kitchen or dramatic play. 🙂
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My sweet babes (age 6 and 7) love all building toys and things with wheels. Thanks!
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My kids are 6, 5, 3 , and 1. They love playing with costumes the most and that is closely followed by building toys and dolls.
My boys are 10 and 8 and they still love and play with their stuffed animals. Many nights before going to bed they have their very own stuffed animal show.
My children are 1.5 and 3 and they love playing dress up with silks, kitchen with dishes and plastic containers, and any small enclosed space can become a cave or castle. Your toys look wonderful!
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My kids are 6 and 3. My son loves legos and my daughter loves playdough.
I have three girls and they are 5, 7, and 9. Their favorite way to have imaginative play is not a toy that I can buy. It is anything outdoors – rocks, pinecones, dirt, grass, dried gourds from the garden, etc. It is hard in the winter when outdoor play is limited. Then, there favorites are legos, calico critters, and dolls.
12, 9, 2 and 10 months.
They love dressing up and small wooden animals to create stories and scenes with.
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My daughter is 4 and she loves her play tent to pretend it is all sorts of different places!
My son is 8 and Legs and cars are the toys that spark imaginative play.
My girls are 4.5 and 6.5 years old. They love playing with their stuffed animals and baby dolls–dressing them, feeding them, wearing them, taking them out with us. They also enjoy building toys like Legos and Lincoln logs.
My two girls are 8 and 5. Their creative outlet at the moment is in any form of textile art.. sewing, knitting, bracelet making, and my favorite, making homemade cat toys!
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Ages 6.5, 4.5, and 2. Play silks!
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Hi! My boys are 7 and 10. They can’t live without their stuffed animals, they love them and play all thay long everywhere we go. I’ve been buying all kinds of fabric and they’ve started to make their own stuffed animals. Greetings from Mexico!
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My kids are 8, 6, and 2, and they love Legos and cardboard boxes!
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How wonderful! I’ve always drooled over their selection of products but haven’t bought anything. My kids are 8, 6, and 2. They love dress-up things, pretend kitchen toys, anything with which they can build, simple paper and coloring implements. They’re always coming up with the most creative things!
8, 6, 4, 2, 1. Favorites are legos for sure…. but also any type of dress-up items.
My kids are 3, 5, 7, and 9. The thing the really love to play with right now is sticks. They make things with them, use them as swords, all sorts of creativity and doesn’t cost me a thing!
My kids are 7 and 3 and lately their favs have been waffle blocks and vintage Fisher Price little people.
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My children are 8,5, and 3! They love to dress up and put on plays and dance recitals! Thanks for this chance to win!!!!
We have three boys, 12, 10 and 7… they all LOVE building toys, especially Legos!
My Kids’ ages are 23, 22, 13, 10, and 8. I wish I had found this company 23 years ago. My kids have always enjoyed making things. They like clay, yarn, sewing materials, cardboard, etc.
My kids are 10, 8, 5, and 2. They love using playsilks for every imaginary game, with play food and stuffed animals playing supporting roles.
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They build forts in the woods and create an entire village out there.
My children are 6 and 8, enjoying dolls and stuff is and LEGO for imagination. ..as well as just running around outside.
My son is 12 years old. He loves Legos, but has lately been using his imagination the most with just a pencil and a drawing pad!
My kids are 13, 11 and 9 and they all love LEGO.
My kids are 8, 6, 4, 2. All four of them get hours of imaginative play from a chest full of costumes. Next on the list is probably toy cars, as they create quite elaborate personalities and communities for the vehicles.
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My children are 14, 13, 6, 4, and 2. They love Lego and Duplo for building imaginative creations and they also play for hours with a bin of dress up clothes. They are equally creative with empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls though so I don’t think it matters much what they use as long as they are given the opportunity to play imaginatively!
My kids are 10 and 5. They love to play outside and spend a good amount of time in the great outdoors. They enjoy making playgrounds for bugs, and different habitats for little critters they find. They can play for hours doing this. Thank you so much for offering this amazing giveaway. 🙂
My kids are 8, 6, and 5. Their favorite toys for imaginative play are Legos and any kind of card board box!
Two girls, 6 & 4. Boy 15 mo. They all love to play with their kitchen and food toys. We have tea parties and cooking classes!
my kids are almost 2 and almost 4 and they love building with blocks and sticks and really anything they can find! and making forts and playing kitchen… we do a lot of playing!
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My kids are 8, 6, 3, 1 and 17 weeks in utero! Our favorite toys for imaginative play are play silks, blankets, and our wooden toy farm and figures. Although toddlers always seem to favor the toy kitchen!
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My kids are 6 and 5, boy and girl. They play pretend with virtually anything, but the fold-out tent can not miss from any of the scenarios.
My kids are 9, 7 and 4. They’re inspired by Legos, blocks, construction paper and clay. They love to draw and investigate the world around them. Thank you for the giveaway!
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My boys are 5 and 8 and most recently their favorite thing to imagine with are the two huge cardboard boxes we got from some friends who were remodeling their kitchen!
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I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old. My 2 year old loves dolls and my 4 year old loves tractors and dirt!
I have a 4 year old boy and 6 year old boy. They love plastic animals and making worlds for them to live in, Legos, and playing with trucks and all sorts of things outside in the dirt.
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My children are 3, 6 and 9. Their favourite toy that inspires imaginative play is their play food and related play kitchen items.
My girls are 3 and 4, and they love their stuffed animals, tiny toys like shopkins, and most of all their princess dresses. Imaginative play is big in our house – I love to join in the fun. Thank you for the wonderful giveaway.
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My children are 7, 6, 4, and 6 months. Play is centered around Legos lately!
I have an 8 year old girl who is most imaginative with her massive collection of stuffed animals. (She’s hoping to break a Guiness World Record ????.) I also have two boys, ages 5 and 2.5 who love to play dress-up.
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My children are 8 & 5. Their current creative-play is all about forts. They create elaborate systems linking the forts to each other and adorn the inside with cardboard boxes which they say are a variety of things from their supper to their wardrobe.
I know they’d love a chance to peruse the Imagine Childhood catalog with a $100 gift card to spend, so thank you for the chance to win! 🙂
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My kids are 10, 8 and 4 and they love to play with blocks and cutouts from their drawings.
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My boys are 7 and 3–their imaginative play is often based off of their favorite books and stories; add in a few blankets and blocks and they’re good to go!
My children are 10, 8, 7 and 4. They love to build with Legos, making forts and using the laundry basket as go carts!
7, 6, and 7 months
Wooden blocks are their favorite.
Ages 5, 3, and 2. They love playing with their toy kitchen and play food and dishes.
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my youngest is 5 and puppets inspire her creative play!
My daughter is 9 and just about anything encourages her creative play. She loves Legos and playing in her doll house. She also likes her dress up box because then the world can become anything she can dream up! 🙂 Thank you for having this contest!
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My kids are 12 and 9. The love legos, the great outdoors, costumes, paper, pencils, and art supplies.
Kids are 3.5 and 1.5 they both love playing with our kitchen set and the bucket of duplo:)
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My kids ages are 12, 8, and 6. My youngest loves playing with everything from acorns and bugs to boxes and blocks. My two girls love stuffed animals and playing with anything in nature:)
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My kids are 7, 4, and 2. The last couple of years they have spent a lot of time pretending to be Indians as we’ve studied Native Americans. We have lots of dress up clothes, weapons, tools and more that can keep them going for hours. We even built a large tipi in our yard this fall. They still dress up weekly and use face paints as war paints much more often then I would like, but I love seeing them play and imagine together. Our first grader now loves history and it started with our Native American study!
My son’s favorite toy recently is my spinning wheel. He likes to use it as the landscape for his other toys to explore.
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My kids are 4 and 6, and their imaginations run wild when they get building with magna tiles!
My 2 year old loves playing with her baby, and my almost 5 year old likes masks! Thanks for this wonderful chance, I would be tickled to win!
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My kids are 8,6 and 4. Legos, blankets and pillows to make forts, and dress up clothes.
My son is 6, and just about anything can turn into a toy and inspire his imagination. Most recently, it was empty coffee creamer containers that looked like Star Warss characters, though Leg is are a close second.
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One of my favorite stores -yay! My son is 9 and while we don’t have a play kitchen any longer, it’s still a favorite.
Our children are ages 9, 6 and 4. Their fav toys for imaginative play are silks (roads, rivers, ponds, capes, dress ups), tree blocks (seats,tables, stepping stones..) and a variety of felt or wooden animals and people. They will tell stories for a looong time once they have set up a scene with these or similar materials…
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My boys are 2 and 5 and love making vehicles and other creations out of Magformers.
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I have two older children, 15&17, and two younger children, 11&8. The younger ones still love to play with sticks, blankets, and boxes. In fact, my 11 year old has asked for a big box (like refrigerator size) this Christmas!
My lo is almost 2 and just loves to tuck his teddy up in bed.
My daughter is 6 and she loves blocks and play silks. Thanks for the opportunity!
Our children are 10, 8, 5 and 2. Lately it has been legos, cardboard boxes and masking tape. 🙂 Thanks for this opportunity!
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My children are 17, 12, 10, 6 and 3. They all love building Legos, the younger ones love their dolls and stuffies and all of them besides the 3 year old make up stories.
My kids, 9, 4, and 2, love playsilks. They use them for dress up, tents, dance accessories, you name it. If I had to choose just one toy to keep for my kids, that would be it!
One childay 7 years old. Who loves dress up silks, pvc pipe building kit.
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My children are 4, 5, 7 & 8. For my oldest I would say lego and the bottom 2 would be each other with perhaps a block or 2 of wood. The 7 year old needs nothing except her animal loving brain to be off on an adventure as a puppy, horse or kitty….as for an item, maybe a stuffy to be mommy or sister too (everyone animal needs an adventuring companion).
I homeschooled my 2 children (who are now college age) & now teach 7 children K-2 in a small school. My class love to play legos, I recently set out a wooden train set with bottle brush trees and a white felt Christmas tree wrap to play with it on. They are having so much fun setting it up, & I love to watch them playing together & problem solving how to go about what they are doing.
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6, 3, and almost three months. Sticks, rocks and dirt always a winner!
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My two year old loves baby dolls…my six year old loves to draw, play with legos, and outdoor games, my eleven year old loves to play soccer and draw and my twelve year old loves handicrafts like sewing and knitting. Thank you for the chance to win!!
My kids are 8,6,3, & 1 and we love playsilks and pillows to make cozy forts (:
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Our kids are 16, 13, 11, 8, 6, 4, and 2. Some favourite toys to spark their imagination these days are: boxes, Legos, markers, and dolls. I took a peek at the imagine childhood blog, and it looks great – so many interesting links and ideas.
My kids are 8.5, 5.5, 4, & 18mo. Hands down favorite toys are
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They are 6, 4, 2, and newborn. The best source of imaginative play in our house is the bin of small people and animals.
My children are 17, 13, and 9, and their favorite open-ended or imaginative play toy would be Lego. But they do love Minecraft/Terraria and I like how creative it allows them to be.
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I have 2 energetic homeschooled kids who love to get down and dirty in the mud, swinging from trees- outdoor exploration… Love Imagine Childhood- my favourite store.. This money would help so much this year.
My child is 2 and loves playmobil and any small figures play!
Madalynn 13, Brian 11, Ellie 5, Nate 3. Madalynn and Brian would be lego. Ellie and Nate would be baby dolls and cars
My kids are 12, 10, 8, and 6 and they are inspired to be creative by the simple things, sticks, cardboard boxes, and their stuffed animals. They also love art supplies of all kinds.
Sons are 6 5 3 and baby daughter. Fort magic is the current toy that inspires play.
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I have a 1 and a 7 yr old
i am homeschooling my 7 yr old girl she loves books and stuffed animals and has a big imagination she tells me lots of stories involving her stuffed animals and stories about the books she reads..
I have an almost 4 year old daughter. She seems to become very imaginative when playin with stuffed toys, dolls or little cars. Anything that can have a voice put to it brings out her imagination. She also enjoys her Picasso magnet tiles, she really enjoys creating new spaces. Liked both pages on FB.
I just placed an order with them a few minutes ago! Love their website! My kids are 4 and 6 and they love playing doctor. They use dolls, and then various blocks to play doctor, and often they use each other. One a patient, one the doctor, and use blocks to do the checks.
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My kids are 12, 9 and 7. They enjoy plain paper and coloring tools. Also anything with water! They like imaginative play with all kinds of things around the house.
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My daughter is 6 and my son is 8. My son especially likes things to do with science — microscopes, butterfly kits, etc. My daughter is more into craft stuff and weaving kits. Both have a vivid imagination.
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My kiddos are just turned 8 and 11. They have incredible imaginations, with a love of handwork, building, nature study, and experiments.
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Books inspire imaginative play at our house!
My kids are 8,7,4 and 1.
We love to draw and create. Art supplies, dress ups and building materials are where it is at around here!!
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