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Umbrella Play

Written by Heather Haupt 5 Comments

Since there hasn’t been much “real” opportunity to need these, the boys have come up with creative exuses for pulling out the umbrella.

Pretending it’s raining:
Umbrellas = perfect open-ended play option
twirled umbrella = “Helihocker”
Shooting or utilizing a shield (or anything else battle related)
Going around the sun.

And then finally, he tried to step into it as if it was a boat.  I drew the line there.

Umbrella’s: a perfect open-ended play toy that occasionally can also be used to keep one dry here in Arizona.

Any other ideas on what we could do with our mostly useless umbrellas?

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Filed Under: Creative Toys, Power of Play

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  1. Heather says

    September 11, 2009 at 7:24 pm

    hahahaha. I’ll keep the princess and fairy ideas in mind for that hypothetical girl that might one day grace our home!

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  2. Rich says

    September 11, 2009 at 4:09 pm

    Uhhh, fairies or princess’…not in my house:)

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  3. Simple Joys says

    September 11, 2009 at 4:58 am

    Being fairies hiding under mushrooms!

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  4. Mrs. Miller says

    September 10, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    You’ve missed the obvious! Playing “princess” under your parasol! ::wink::

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