Liven up the toy kitchen

I save as many food and spice containers  as I can for my twins' toy kitchen.  I do not wash the empty spice bottles or food extract bottles in order to preserve the scent. I lightly wash condiment and sauce containers, but wash any cheese containers very well.  My twins and their playmates really love how each container has a nice scent!  The scent really adds to the element of imaginary kitchen/cooking play!  So save those containers, Moms!! If you have none, ask relatives, friends, neighbors for their empty or expired spice jars!

Here are a few examples! 

Fall Harvest Numbers

Tongs, number plates, and fall harvest gem mix!

My twins enjoy this activity a lot. I can change out the manipulative, and even change the tongs to chopsticks or a spoon.  I have the number 1-50 number plates, so some days we do a bigger set of numbers.