peterrabbitplay – A House of Play

I love Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter’s world of adorable critters. I used to read the stories over and over again when I was a child. So, when I saw Tiny Fox Hole’s set of Peter Rabbit characters I had to get them. I wanted to give them a a world to live in where my kids could recreate parts of the books and their own imaginative stories. This play tray is what I came up with.

Supplies I used

Tuff Tray (mine is from Scholar’s Choice)
Cardboard tray insert (I made this using the box the tray came in)
Wooden characters (Tiny Fox Hole)

Grass Section

Artificial grass squares (Dollarama)
DIY Tree Burrow (see here for more info on how I made it)
Wood furniture – The Friendly Woodworker from Wonder + Kind
Miniature vegetables (Maileg)
Felt pond (Sewing Seeds Play*)
Glass beads
Grapat Mandala Coins
River rocks and artificial greenery
Grimm’s wood stacking bowls
Grapat Mandala Eggs
Resin eggs (The Creative Mix Shop)
Grapat Mandala Flowers

Woods Section

Sensory Mix (homemade)
Raduga Grez and Ostheimer wood trees
Wood mushrooms (Dollarama)
Stone and gem mushrooms (AliExpress)
Grapat Mandala Beehives
Grapat Mandala Mushrooms
Grapat Mandala Trees
Felt bee (Sewing Seeds Play*)

Mr. McGregor’s Garden

Dry black beans (Bulk Barn)
Goki My Little Garden Doll Accessories (Sewing Seeds Play*)
Felt worms, ladybug, bees, butterfly and dragonfly (Sewing Seeds Play*)

*Use code HOUESOFPLAY10 to save at Sewing Seeds Play

Finally, I set up our Yoto Mini with the Peter Rabbit card so the kids and I could listen to the stories we played. This tray is one of our favourites. What do you think?

Last year, I found a large cardboard tube in our recycling materials that I thought would make a great treehouse for the kids to play with. I cut a door in it and placed it in a small world scene. My daughter became so enamoured with the idea of it that she and my husband built some cardboard stairs inside leading to an upstairs bedroom with a shelf. I saved the cardboard tube and this year I wanted to give it some extra love to make it look more like a treehouse.

I hot glued two toilet paper rolls onto the sides of the tube for “branches” and then paper mâchéd the tree with scrap paper packaging. I used a 2:1 water and Elmer’s glue mixture to adhere the paper strips around the tube. I left lots of bunches in the paper mâché to give the effect of tree bark.

Then I painted the tree – starting with black in the crevices and working to a lighter colour brown on the tops of the ridges. A little green sponge painting around the base and where the branches meet the tree trunk gave the feel of some moss. Next year I may put a little actual moss on it. I am no artist, but it looked enough like a tree for my kids.

Once the tree was dry, we put it into our Peter Rabbit Sensory Play Tray. My daughter wanted to move some furniture in, so we put a lamp, small fireplace and couch downstairs and added a tv, pillow and blanket upstairs. Now it’s all ready for our wooden bunny friends.

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Peter Rabbit Sensory Play Tray

DIY Cardboard and Paper Mâché Treehouse