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Cubby House Activities
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 3:56 pm
by sr004
We are a small Early Learning Centre attached to a kinder, we are a mixed age room. We are dry for ideas for the cubby house at the moment, it's enclosed & can fit about 3 or 4 children comfortably with some furniture (table & chairs).
We find what ever we put in there the children seem to drag it out & play with it elsewhere anyway but we can't leave it blank all the time.
We've tried the oldies - kitchen, bed, dolls, prams, shop, cars & road mat, sensory tub with animals, musical instruments etc.
Ideas welcome
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2014 10:16 pm
by JNP
How about setting the cubby house up as a restaurant. I set our cubby up a an Asian restaurant once. The children made red paper lanterns and hung them inside and outside of the cubby. I set the table with red material, cane placemats, small chinese bowls, chopsticks and I laminated menus from a local Chinese restaurant.
You get the idea! The children loved it and role played being the customer, waiter, cook etc.
You could also set it up as an Italian restaurant using empty pizza boxes.
I have also set the cubby as a doctors office and a hairdressers.
Just think about the home corner inside and extend it to outside.
Hope this gives you a few ideas.
Jules.
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 4:48 am
by Lorina
What about a reading cubby.... Add a nice rug, cushions, bean bags, basket of books, add posters inside, soft toys, etc.
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L.A
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 6:49 am
by JNP
A reading cubby, I love that idea Lorina.
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2014 9:29 am
by sr004
Thanks for the ideas
I will discuss with my co workers this morning.
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 4:37 am
by Lorina
JNP wrote:A reading cubby, I love that idea Lorina.
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:31 pm
by Esther_te82
Great idea with the reading cubby! Good luck talking to your management
Re: Cubby House Ideas
Posted: Thu Dec 25, 2014 4:51 pm
by benty
Re: Cubby House Activities
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 6:38 pm
by Nandy84
Hello Benty,
Cubbyhouses are great for imaginative play, creative thinking and problem-solving. Children can make cubbyhouses using things around your home. Encourage children to set up a cubbyhouse in whatever way they want.
Games to Play in a Cubby House are:
Host a play. Kids love putting on plays and it gets their creative juices flowing.
Put on a Puppet Show.
Hide and seek.
Cubby Treasure Hunt.
Plant a garden.
Animal hospital.
Castle.
Camping in the cubby house.
Below is a cubbyhouse activity link
https://raisingchildren.net.au/toddlers ... e-activity
Hope this will work
Thanks
Nandita
