100 Things To Do With a Playsilk

100 Things To Do With a Playsilk

100 Things To Do With a Playsilk

Read on for our list of favorite ways to play with Playsilks! Find play ideas to match your child's age & favorite type of play, and download a free printable list of 50 Things To Do With Playsilks.



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Dress-up with Playsilks!

 

  1. Make a cape and become a superhero, queen, or king!
  2. Wear as a skirt and become a princess
  3. Use as a veil draped over your hair
  4. Make a wedding dress
  5. Tie two together to make genie pants
  6. Wrap around both legs as a mermaid tail
  7. Braid to make Rapunzel hair
  8. Fashion a tunic by tying two sides over one shoulder
  9. Drape as a wizard cloak
  10. Wear one while cooking as a chef apron
  11. Drape over your head and become a ghost
  12. Tie a belt for your sword
  13. Wear a sling for your doll
  14. Wrap on your head and give a fortune reading
  15. Use as a head scarf to be a little old lady
  16. Tie a pirate scarf
  17. Pretend to be a fashion designer and create outfits
  18. Make karate headband/arm bands/leg bands
  19. Tie diagonal corners to each wrist to make wings

 

 

Decorate with Playsilks!

 

  1. Make a colorful bunting
  2. Decorate a birthday table
  3. As a sunshade in the car/cover a window
  4. Cover a Playstand
  5. Decorate your bedroom or staircase
  6. Hang it over your bed
  7. Drape as a tablecloth
  8. Use as gift wrap
  9. Use as a backdrop for theater performances
  10. Drapery for nature tables
  11. Hang in a doorway as a curtain


Pretend with Playsilks!

 

  1. Sail a boat on a blue Playsilk
  2. Parachute play for a teddy bear
  3. Pretend to be in a cocoon all wrapped up then burst into a butterfly
  4. Make red fire from the mouth of a dragon
  5. Use as a blanket for a doll
  6. Baby carrier for your doll or stuffed animal 
  7. Become a jellyfish
  8. Color matching with our Rainbow Playsilk
  9. Use yellow as the sun
  10. Pretend it's nighttime with a Star Playsilk
  11. Use as a sling for pretend broken arms
  12. Make a nature play scene- ice, green grass, yellow sand, blue water
  13. Lay them on the ground and jump from one to another-"hot lava”
  14. Act out a story
  15. Build a pirate ship with flag
  16. Mix up soup or a potion in a pot
  17. Pretend fire with sticks for your camping needs
  18. River under a bridge for a train to go over
  19. Use as a toy dog leash
  20. Blue water moat around a toy castle
  21. Tea party picnic blanket
  22. Use as a pretend bandage
  23. "Swim" on one
  24. Play fishing on a blue sea
  25. Play charades using only a Playsilk to act out the word/character


Explore with Playsilks!

 

  1. Build a fort outdoors with Playsilks
  2. Lay out your Playsilk on the grass for a picnic
  3. Throw your Playsilk in the sky and watch it float down
  4. Juggle two or three Playsilks
  5. Run in the wind 
  6. Get one wet, it feels interesting
  7. Take Playsilks on car trips - they pack small
  8. Tie onto two chairs to make a doll/animal hammock
  9. Collect seashells with one
  10. Attach to your swing so it flows in the wind behind you
  11. Make a flag by tying one on a stick
  12. Fly it in the wind at the beach like an easy kite
  13. Jump on a trampoline with a Playsilk tied on as a cape and watch it fly
  14. Using Playclips make a tent  
  15. Tie on bike handles and ride
  16. Attach them to a climbing dome/play structure
  17. Float in a swimming pool
  18. Run in a field holding one
  19. Scrunch them up and throw them up in the air


Create with Playsilks!

 

  1. Dance with one or two
  2. Build a cubby house with a box and Playsilk
  3. Use as a puppet show curtain
  4. Make a pouch
  5. Hang under a loft bed
  6. Knot into a simple doll 
  7. Tie onto a wooden ring as a safe teether
  8. Build a pillow fort
  9. Create a reusable "Green" Halloween costume
  10. Dye white Playsilks with food coloring or plants
  11. Make a tent with three tall sticks tied on top with a Playsilk


Learn with Playsilks!

  1. Practice tying knots and bow
  2. Use in yoga class
  3. Practice counting your Playsilks
  4. Tooth fairy gift
  5. Stuff them in a tissue box or ball with holes and let your child pull them out
  6. Use as color therapy and to learn your colors
  7. Sensory play
  8. Put it on a heater vent and watch it float up
  9. Go grocery shopping with a Playsilk ‘bag’
  10. Cuddle with your favorite Playsilk
  11. Wrap yourself in a rainbow if you feel sad
  12. Hang over a baby to entertain them as they blow in the wind
  13. Wrap up your special treasures
  14. Play peek-a-boo with a baby
  15. Give a Playsilk to someone you love

Leave a comment telling us your favorite ways to play with Playsilks!


xoxo,

Sarah


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Comments

  • We love to use play scarfs to make forts in our yard and watch the sun rays come through. We tie them together and use for a puppet show in the grass. So much fun!

    Marie on

  • We love to play “night night” with our baby doll and pile up a bunch of silks to make a soft fluffy bed

    Jessica Falcone on

  • My daughter is 2 and uses them as blankies for her babies but my favorite is when she wraps them around her face (like a grannie) and says “cold” 🥹

    Melanie on

  • We are new to play silks but so far my daughters favorite way to play as a cape to be a superhero princess or a blankies for her baby doll.

    Ashlee on

  • Build a mountain with green, lake with blue, wave gray silk as storm clouds while making thunder, then yellow silk as sun followed by waving the rainbow silk ending with the desert silk as a sunset

    Janet on

  • My kids love to use the play silks to dance with or wrap up their stuffed animals as babies. The amount of pretend play that they use the play silks for, is amazing- from using them as hats and headbands and capes- to building forts and “houses” – the options are limitless for my imaginative kiddos.
    My daughter especially loves them.

    Hope B. on

  • We love to build forts!

    Brianne Roudebush on

  • play peek a boo

    Barbra Fite on

  • We love waving them in the air, using for gymnastics, making forts, and wearing them for costumes!

    Stacy Soto on

  • My 6 year old loves using them as capes and as play backdrops in his little figure pretend play. My 1.5 year old has used one to hold her “Bebe” like a doll sling. We love love our silks. My 6 year old is really wanting the bed canopy we saw here next !

    Rebecca Doane on

  • Our favorite way to play with our silks so far has been making different dresses/outfits with them and dancing, and we recently used the “fire” one to make a campfire and we roasted pretend s’mores. They also get used as picnic blankets and fancy tablecloths for tea parties, swaddles for the many stuffies, and one time we stuffed them into our play kitchen bowls to pretend they were ice cream! Endless opportunities for fun with play silks…my 3 and 2 year old girls are loving them!

    Emily on

  • My son’s favorite way to use playsilks is to wrap them like a baby carrier and put his plushies inside. He will sometimes carry up to 5 plushies inside and pretend they are his babies. He wants to pretend he is like his dad who carried him and his sister in carriers. He loves to use them in other ways but by far this is our favorite way to use the silks.

    Rebekah van der Watt on

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