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

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Comments

  • Use as background for a playscene, or as the landscape for small world play

    Anne Nelsen on

  • Playsilks provided costumes for an endless parade of heroes, mermaids, wizards and elves at our house; they also served as storyscapes for my daughter’s collection of tiny ceramic animals to act out her favorite tales.

    Karen Anderson on

  • My kids love to wrap up in them and nap. Wrap them around their bodies and do ballet. Wrap gifts up and play birthday party. They are capes and lay them our for pretend or real picnics. Our silks are them most played with items . They tie them up on sticks and fill them up with treasure. They are pretend laundry or doll swaddles or carriers . Lava around block towers .

    maggie k on

  • We call them silkies and they are used most of all in play, from dressing up to puppet shows. Most creatively, my children have used them to make thrones by layering them over chairs set on top of small tables – they come up with beautiful sets and scenery for their play time this way. At kindergarten, we’ve used them as simple knot doll puppets, and as sweet porridge bubbling out of the pot during story time.

    Soheray on

  • Attach to hair ties or clips to make colorful hair.
    Hang some on a cloths line to run through like a car wash.
    Tie a pom pom to one end and play with your cat.
    There are endless ways to play with these colorful silks!

    Tara on

  • We love using our playsilks as capes, rivers, soup, forts, and for dancing! Another idea, my kids use them for dividing up play spaces into “rooms” under play arches.

    Alissa Mott on

  • Make a pirate head scarf and juggle them.

    Kara on

  • My daughter loves to pretend they’re food, stuff them down her shirt, then pretend she so full and throws them all up. Sounds gross but she loves it lol.

    Julia M. on

  • At our house playsilks are popular stuffed animal hammocks, pretend gift wrap, and they tie them to everything!

    Melanie on

  • Let’s see.. In the past couple days we’ve used them for blindfolds, to decorate for a birthday party, as a baby toy, and my daughter currently is strutting around the house in some kind of silk “dress” she’s fashioned with clothes pins! Haha! We’d love to try using the playclips with them!

    Rosie on

  • Peek-A-Boo always gets lots of giggles in our house!

    Lauren on

  • My daughter likes to use the sea playsilk as water in the sink of her play kitchen. We use the Fire playsilk to make a pretend campfire. And of course they always act as a cape for her and her stuffed animals.

    Coda on

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