WELCOME TO MAKE TIME 2 PLAY

When children play in a swimming pool, we call it play. When adults go swimming, we call it exercise.
When children dance, we call it play. When adults dance, we call it exercise.
When children take part in sport, we call it play. When adults are in a team, we call it exercise.

Last week Sport England launched #WeAreUndefeatable, inspiring and supporting people with long-term health conditions to build physical activity into their lives.

If you’re looking for some play inspiration to get your family moving, have a look for the Free Make Time 2 Play app on android and i0S. You can tailor play ideas to specific benefits e.g. physical, to get your whole family playing (exercising)! ... See more

Play idea: Putting the washing away.

Putting the washing away has many ways of becoming a game.

Younger children you can play matching games with the socks or sorting the clothes into a pile of their clothes and a pile of your clothes. As children get older, getting them to help with folding the laundry and race to see who can fold their pile the fastest AND still be neat helps with fine motor skills. When the socks are paired there could be a Sockball competition to see who can throw them into the drawer from a distance.

Children enjoy competing against others to see who can do something the fastest. If they can help put away the laundry at the same time, then they might associate chores around the house with fun and not bore. ... See more

For a lot of children September can be about mixing with new people, making new friends or reuniting with friends they haven’t seen since before the summer holidays.

If you’ve got some playdates planned this weekend why not use our FREE Make Time 2 Play app’s Social Benefits section to choose games designed to develop their socialising and communication skills? ... See more

Happy Roald Dahl Day. Lots of your little ones will have trotted off to school or nursery dressed as their favourite Roald Dahl characters for Dahlicious Dress-Up Day in aid of Roald Dahl’s Marvellous Children’s Charity.

Not all children are as excited by books and reading as others. If you would like your children to read more and choose to pick up a book over a toy every now and then, why not turn the books into play? You could get your little ones to put on a show and act out the story? Or give them the title of the book and get them to guess what it could be about and then read the story together?

For more play inspiration, why don’t you visit the Make Time 2 Play website? (http://www.maketime2play.co.uk/play-right-now/play-picker/) ... See more