The imagination of a child includes something to be treasured and encouraged. Younger children learn several skills through the imagination, from language and cognitive skills, interactive play and independent play to just name a few. Dress up and pretend play are excellent methods of letting the child act and dream out all kinds of fun ventures.

Your kids possibly watches you prepare and cook meals each day. There are several baking and cooking toys that are available which let your children have lots of time for entertainment. A few of these sorts of toys may include; coffee sets, dinnerware sets, a wide variety of tea pot sets, pots and pans, plastic food sets, bakery sets, and picnic baskets. It is easy for the kids to set up their own small imaginary barbecue's and toasters, stoves, microwaves, plastic refrigerators, working mini refrigerators, and kitchens complete with ovens that bake cookies. Small shopping markets with cash registers and plastic store items could be bought, along with snow-cone machines and gum ball machines.

Playing dress up is a favourite amongst children of all ages, whether it is having fun with mom's closet or dressing up in dad's baseball uniform. There's a good variety of all kinds of different kinds of accessories, masks and costumes for kids to choose from. Costumes can come in designs like ballerina and popular cartoon character and hero suits with capes and muscled chests, witches, devils, cherubs, waitress outfits, dresses, magic hats with cape and gloves, engineer suits, veterinarian and doctor uniforms, and fireman and police uniforms to name a few. Good accessories like doctor and medical kits, magic kits, purses complete with keys and cell phones, cowboy hats, light sabres, ninja swords, tiara sets and crowns could be part of these fun activities. Playing dress up gives children the opportunity to use their imagination in a way that is fun through acting out adventures and role play.

Possibly the only time the child will love housekeeping is when they are still young. Many kids enjoy helping out dad or mom with easy household chores and cleaning. With this in mind, you will discover lots of housekeeping toys to keep the kids entertained and busy for long periods of time.

For all the younger enthusiasts of outdoor landscaping, there are excellent gardening accessories and tools that are available. Small wheelbarrows are designed in metal and plastic designs, both useful at pushing gravel, weeds and dirt across the yard. Gardening gloves, shovels, gardening rakes, gardening totes with seeds, gardening aprons, mini gardening sets, watering cans and plastic and metal gardening pails could additionally be bought. Other cute gardening sets include tiny fairy cottages, seeds and planters ready for planting.

A fun and encouraging method of aiding children in understanding how money works is to get them to play with banking and money games and toys. There includes a variety of cash registers that are available that contain price check readouts and microphones, price scanners, fake credit cards and play money providing learning experiences for many skills which include cognitive skills, mathematical skills and motor skills.

Finally, another common aspect of playing pretend includes the utilization of puppets. Puppets could be found in marionette, pop-up, baby puppet, bath puppet, finger puppet, and hand puppet designs. Along with puppets there includes accessories for puppets and cute puppet theatres to add to the adventure. There isn't any end to the puppet designs available from animals, people, fantasy and cartoon characters.