Pretend Play Archives - Happiness is here https://happinessishereblog.com/category/pretend-play/ Documenting life without school and free childhood. Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:35:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.5 74338626 Children Who Don’t Go to School: What Does It Look like to Play All Day? https://happinessishereblog.com/children-who-dont-go-to-school-what-does-it-look-like-to-play-all-day/ https://happinessishereblog.com/children-who-dont-go-to-school-what-does-it-look-like-to-play-all-day/#comments Sun, 24 Jun 2018 03:49:05 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=17979 It is a beautiful sight to watch children at play. But, how sad that it is still so devalued. I often have […]

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]]> https://happinessishereblog.com/honouring-interests/feed/ 31 4269 Homemade Farm Play Mat https://happinessishereblog.com/homemade-farm-play-mat/ https://happinessishereblog.com/homemade-farm-play-mat/#comments Wed, 15 Oct 2014 05:49:13 +0000 https://happinessishereblog.com/?p=2592 I recently posted a picture on facebook of the girls playing with this farm play mat that we made for them a […]

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