Combine two groups of toys as never before!

 

Today's activity is very simple, but sometimes the best things in life are very simple!  As you know, my kids really enjoy making "set ups" with their toys.  (A "set-up" is when the kids take a selection of their toys and, well, set them up.)

Today, we'd like the kids to make a special kind of set up.  Tell your kids to combine two toys they've never combined before . . . and then play with them.

For instance, your kids have some toy cars.  They also have some Star Wars figures.  Have the Star Wars figures ever ridden on the toy cars?

Your kids have a bunch of plastic plates and plastic foods.  They also have about a hundred stuffed animals.  Has the herd of animals

You get the idea.  Now go turn the kids loose!

Oh, but there are some rules.  The idea here is to combine only two sets of toys.  At least at first.  The idea is not to  have a hodgepodge of toys every which way.  Instead we are focusing on carefully considered combinations.  What two sets can be combined for maximum fun?

And if the kids have successfully set up two groups of toys, we'd also like them to clean those up before experimenting with two other sets.

Combining is fun!  We hope that this makes for hours of free and relaxing fun for your family this weekend.