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The Play Talk Blog shares stories, play ideas, and parenting resources to support growth, creativity, and joyful learning at every stage.

Costume Inspiration in Two Easy Steps

Costume Inspiration in Two Easy Steps

Whether you're a halloween fanatic or a simply looking for costume inspiration. Here are two easy steps to inspire your costume creations for halloween and beyond.

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Manhattan Toy's Monstrous Halloween: Trick or Treat With MiO!

Halloween is one of our favorite holidays! That's because little ones are encouraged to use their imagination

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How to Encourage Imaginative Play

Imaginative play is essential for children and their key to engaging and making sense of the world, because children learn best from experience: from what happens around them, what they see, hear, smell, taste and touch.  To truly absorb these skills they need to act...

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Happy Halloween!

We hope you have some spooky and fun plans today whether is be trick-or-treating with your kids or friends, a party at your child's school or at your office or just watching something haunting on TV. Because many at our...

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Imaginations at Play on Halloween

Halloween is the one day each year that you can become anything you want, so of course we love this holiday that encourages using your imagination and creativity!  Even though Halloween is just one week away, most of our office is still trying to decide what...

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