Make believe play: grocery store

During our more than a week stuck (mostly) at home while the boys have been recovering from this nasty bug we have been using a lot of make believe to keep things interesting! We have had fireman and super heroes saving the day, been on boats in the high seas (a.k.a the couch), and here I snapped a few pictures of the day they set up a store in the living room.

The store sign.
The store, avec cart and cash register.

Satisfied customer putting his groceries into the bag after paying big-brother-check-out-operator $56 for two slices of bread, an ice-cream cone, and a tomato!! :)

Hope you all have a week end full of fun!

Castle building

Over the weekend Rylan and I built a castle. First I cut out the boxes (we got them from Costco) and then we glued them together.
Rylan did all the painting. First I gave him a bowl of paint and a big sponge, which he used to paint the boxes completely. We let the first layer dry and then he put on a second coat, so the writing on the boxes was no longer visible. After the second layer was dry, I gave him a small square sponge (cut from the end of a dish sponge) and a bowl of darker brown paint, which he used to sponge on the bricks.

We added a red cardboard roof on the tower (just twisted an A4 size sheet and cut it to size then taped it on). The flag was cut from red felt and glued onto a chopstick. And we were done.

Ready for play...and a whole lot of make believe!