No prep, 4-year-olds

• pans, bowls or trays
• wooden spoons

• a basket of clean laundry

• a magnet

• a muffin tin
• three pasta shapes, mixed

• a pillowcase each

• dot stickers
• paper
• a marker

• stuffed animals
• a chair or cushion to land them on

• painter's tape

• blocks or bricks

• a picture book they know well

Nothing to gather

• paper plates or paper
• something to draw with

• water
• a bucket
• a brush or sponge

• bubble wrapto buy
• tape to hold it down

• wooden blocksto buy

• magnetic tilesto buy

• large building bricksto buy
• a bath

• building bricksto buy

• a jigsaw puzzleto buy

• play doughto buy

• a toy doctor kitto buy
• a stuffed animal or doll

• a train set with trackto buy
• small people or animal figuresto buy

• play doughto buy
• toy animals or dinosaursto buy

• building bricksto buy
• play doughto buy

• magnetic tilesto buy
• toy carsto buy

• a toy doctor kitto buy
• stuffed animals or toy animals
• painter's tape for bandages

• a train set with trackto buy
• wooden blocksto buy

• wooden blocksto buy
• toy carsto buy

• play doughto buy
• cookie cutters

• kinetic sandto buy

• play food or a tea setto buy
• stuffed animals