something i use to do when the kids were younger, while i was cooking dinner my daughter would always be right up under me so one day i got out the pots, pans, bowls and cups and turned them upside down with a spoon to bang on them and had a instant music session that way we both had something to do in the kitchen.

I couldn't help myself to share another one, they're so many things my neighborhood friends and i would do one of them that sticks out that was really fun, we would set up empty boxes we used as tables and wrote us out a menu and cut round cardboard pieces for plates (sometimes we used paperpates) and made our food for the menu from dirt and water different colors of dirt for different entree's (of course) and grass, flowers, sticks, acorns,leaves and got really dirty doing this but it was fun, we always could find things to do without having to be taken to the store and bought things to do I sure saved my mom and dad alot of money on entertainment. I think i need to share some of these things with my girls since i'm thinking about it.

When i was growing up we used our imagination quit a bit. We would draw our make believe house and draw squares for each room and leave a opening for the door. We would draw furniture in each room and draw halls and accesories. Granted we needed a good size area to do this but worked good on the play ground or back yard with out alot of grass.Kids now could use the washable chalk on the driveways and that would be even better to show off the house you created. After we did all this work we would go to each others house and visit and look at what each one created and we would have our dolls we placed on the furniture and acted like we were grown and had families of our own. I was never bored growing up we used more of our imagination then. I cannot wait to get this book for my girls to inspire some imagination and introduce them to new things. What a wonderful concept for a book