This day I love.......: imaginative play

The girls love imaginative play. They love their Schleich figures and creating adventures. Recently the girls were sent the Croco jungle research station by Schleich, and they were keen to create an adventure. First though we had to build the station.

The Croco Jungle Research station took around 15 minutes to build but the instructions were clear and easy to follow. Each piece was easy to fit together and nothing was too fiddly, in fact it was actually simple to build. The girls helped, assembling trap doors and filling chests with gold coins. As you would expect with Schleich everything is of exceptional build quality and could withstand a 5 year old attempting to fit pieces together.

The croco jungle research station is quite large when built and does take up most of my coffee table, the advantage is though that there is plenty of room to play. The girls started making up their own individual stories whilst intertwining with each others imagination. My youngest got the vet van and brought it over to the research station to aid her sister who had captured a crocodile!

The quality and detail on each piece is simply amazing, and I think it is down to the amount of detail that sparks such creativity. The animals look realistic, even Little Man has begun to recognise animals from his Schleich animals. There is so much care to attention to detail, photos cannot do each piece justice.

The Croco jungle research station as 3 areas that can be played with independently or together. The crocodile rock has an upper jaw that can be opened, closed or removed. Inside the jaw is a hiding place in one of the teeth. The back of the skull can also be removed to reveal a hidden treasure chamber. The Crocodile rock can then be clipped to the viewing platform. In doing so the secret trapdoor leads into the treasure chamber. This is then linked to the house. A ranger and scientific equipment come with the set, along with 4 animals, and the girls use the house as the rangers house. The third piece is a pen. The girls open the pen up and use to capture crocodiles. The pen can be placed near the house or further away.

There are so many ways that the Croco jungle research station can be played with. The girls can play their own games but still interact with each other. Little Man is often given an animal to play with. It is rare that you can find something that can entertain 3 children of such varying ages. The Croco jungle research station would make a perfect gift.

We were sent the croco jungle research station in exchange for this post. All words are my own opinion.

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My children learn best through play. I personally feel that when learning is fun that children will often learn more as they become engrossed in what they are doing. Not only this but they also remember what they did.

‘Educational Play the Schleich Way’ is a new initiative from Schleich. Schleich have created a 16 page brochure to accompany the campaign and within it is a wealth of ideas. The guide begins by discussing the different roles within a balanced play diet. This was something I had never thought of before, but it makes perfect sense. Giving children a mixture of active, social, Creative and free play. Another important point the guide makes it to be there for your child and to play with them. I think we all get busy sometimes and it is important to make time to play.

The guide also explores other issues such as sharing. With each one it gives ideas of how to help and makes suggestions of how to use some of the Schleich range. I felt it very important that the guide states not to gender stereotype toys because every child is different.

My youngest is learning about size at school and so we used our Schleich toys to extend this learning at home. First we lined our toys up with the biggest ears, then by size and finally feet.

When we had collected her sister from school the girls played together in the garden with the Schleich animals. My youngest showed her sister which was the biggest and which had the biggest ears, reciting everything we had talked about earlier. The girls then began to bath the animals before taking them down to the grass for some food. They each took it in turns to look after each animal and it was simply lovely listening to their story unfold as they played together.

Schleich toys have been a success with the girls. They love how detailed each one is, so things like sorting is made easy. The details also spark conversations as they discuss which has more black on it, the zebra or the cow?. They also love that they can play with them in water as well as out of the water, without damaging them!

If you would like to find out more about the Schleich campaign there is a link to the brochure in the side bar.

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