100 Things To Do With a Playsilk
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Dress-up with Playsilks!
- Make a cape and become a superhero, queen, or king!
- Wear as a skirt and become a princess
- Use as a veil draped over your hair
- Make a wedding dress
- Tie two together to make genie pants
- Wrap around both legs as a mermaid tail
- Braid to make Rapunzel hair
- Fashion a tunic by tying two sides over one shoulder
- Drape as a wizard cloak
- Wear one while cooking as a chef apron
- Drape over your head and become a ghost
- Tie a belt for your sword
- Wear a sling for your doll
- Wrap on your head and give a fortune reading
- Use as a head scarf to be a little old lady
- Tie a pirate scarf
- Pretend to be a fashion designer and create outfits
- Make karate headband/arm bands/leg bands
- Tie diagonal corners to each wrist to make wings
Decorate with Playsilks!
- Make a colorful bunting
- Decorate a birthday table
- As a sunshade in the car/cover a window
- Cover a Playstand
- Decorate your bedroom or staircase
- Hang it over your bed
- Drape as a tablecloth
- Use as gift wrap
- Use as a backdrop for theater performances
- Drapery for nature tables
- Hang in a doorway as a curtain
Pretend with Playsilks!
- Sail a boat on a blue Playsilk
- Parachute play for a teddy bear
- Pretend to be in a cocoon all wrapped up then burst into a butterfly
- Make red fire from the mouth of a dragon
- Use as a blanket for a doll
- Baby carrier for your doll or stuffed animal
- Become a jellyfish
- Color matching with our Rainbow Playsilk
- Use yellow as the sun
- Pretend it's nighttime with a Star Playsilk
- Use as a sling for pretend broken arms
- Make a nature play scene- ice, green grass, yellow sand, blue water
- Lay them on the ground and jump from one to another-"hot lava”
- Act out a story
- Build a pirate ship with flag
- Mix up soup or a potion in a pot
- Pretend fire with sticks for your camping needs
- River under a bridge for a train to go over
- Use as a toy dog leash
- Blue water moat around a toy castle
- Tea party picnic blanket
- Use as a pretend bandage
- "Swim" on one
- Play fishing on a blue sea
- Play charades using only a Playsilk to act out the word/character
Explore with Playsilks!
- Build a fort outdoors with Playsilks
- Lay out your Playsilk on the grass for a picnic
- Throw your Playsilk in the sky and watch it float down
- Juggle two or three Playsilks
- Run in the wind
- Get one wet, it feels interesting
- Take Playsilks on car trips - they pack small
- Tie onto two chairs to make a doll/animal hammock
- Collect seashells with one
- Attach to your swing so it flows in the wind behind you
- Make a flag by tying one on a stick
- Fly it in the wind at the beach like an easy kite
- Jump on a trampoline with a Playsilk tied on as a cape and watch it fly
- Using Playclips make a tent
- Tie on bike handles and ride
- Attach them to a climbing dome/play structure
- Float in a swimming pool
- Run in a field holding one
- Scrunch them up and throw them up in the air
Create with Playsilks!
- Dance with one or two
- Build a cubby house with a box and Playsilk
- Use as a puppet show curtain
- Make a pouch
- Hang under a loft bed
- Knot into a simple doll
- Tie onto a wooden ring as a safe teether
- Build a pillow fort
- Create a reusable "Green" Halloween costume
- Dye white Playsilks with food coloring or plants
- Make a tent with three tall sticks tied on top with a Playsilk
Learn with Playsilks!
- Practice tying knots and bow
- Use in yoga class
- Practice counting your Playsilks
- Tooth fairy gift
- Stuff them in a tissue box or ball with holes and let your child pull them out
- Use as color therapy and to learn your colors
- Sensory play
- Put it on a heater vent and watch it float up
- Go grocery shopping with a Playsilk ‘bag’
- Cuddle with your favorite Playsilk
- Wrap yourself in a rainbow if you feel sad
- Hang over a baby to entertain them as they blow in the wind
- Wrap up your special treasures
- Play peek-a-boo with a baby
- Give a Playsilk to someone you love
Leave a comment telling us your favorite ways to play with Playsilks!
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Sarah
My kids love to make their home base / fort with the colorful playsilks when playing the 90’s game “Tales of the Crystals”. They make for a perfect Secret Garden!
Sarah on
My kids love to make their home base / fort with the colorful playsilks when playing the 90’s game “Tales of the Crystals”. They make for a perfect Secret Garden!
Sarah on
We are slowly collecting the different colors and 3 year old daughter loves using then for all kinds of things. She turns the couch into a bed with silk sheets, she practices swim class on the water made from blue silks, she dresses up like her favorite Wondergarten gnomes and fairies, and we wrap all her presents in silks. My 1 year old just loves to play peak-a-boo with silks. They also make great gifts!
Lianna on
Our daughter likes to wave/dance with her playsilk, play peekaboo, or wear it on her head like her dad’s bandana!
Allison on
My son likes to play dress up (capes, skirts, dresses, etc.) He also likes to put a silk over his head and pretend to be invisible.
Sarah Rice on
Besides normal dress up, I liked bringing them in the bath with my kids. It was fun watching them make big bubbles. We also love to play in the wind with the playsilks. We run around, hold on tight then when a good gust comes we let go and see how far the silks will float.
Erica Guadagnoli on
Playsilks inspire such genuine engagement within children and adults alike. An exercise of our wonder muscle creates such diversity; from a bobsled launch, by folding the silk long ways and tying to the top of a playstand to send logs down, to tying the ends together and together and together to create the largest playsilk quilt and fly it in the air, the ideas are endless!
Katie K on
My kids love to play pretend with playsilks from using them as a cape to being a leopard and running through the house with them and building forts.
Leila G. on
Playsilks are perfect for a stroller sunshade! My toddler also likes to put down a mat to lay on while I do her “makeup”
Callie Anna Oxner on
I recently stacked some diaper boxes on their sides, 1- 2- and 3- high, put a stuffed animal or two in each box, then covered the opening with a play silk. Essentially made little apartment homes for the toys. He could “knock” on each box, then lift the silk to see who’s inside. My son is two and picked up on the whole “knock knock” thing a little while ago, so he was all about it
Heather Reid on
My daughter’s latest favourite thing to do with her silks is to turn them into a cocoon around her and emerge as a butterfly with her rainbow silk on her back. It’s super cute! A close second is turning her silks into a nest and pretending to be a bird.
Courtney on
Favorite way to play was peek-a-boo at age 1, blast off (throwing them in the air) at 2, superhero capes at 3, and currently fort building and gift wrap!
Adrienne on