Scarves are fantastic accessories to use in an imaginary play activity with children.

As the weekend approaches, grab some shiny scarves, give them to your child, put on their favorite music and you will be surprised to see how many different ideas your child comes up with as to how to use the scarves in their imaginary play.

We would love to hear your child’s ideas.

I don’t know if Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso ever met in person.  If they had met, that would have been some meeting.  I can only imagine that out of the millions of subjects and topics they could have discussed, imagination and creativity would have been on the top of the list.

There are two quotes by Picasso and Einstein which have inspired and guided me during my years of working with young children.  

The two quotes are:

“Every chil...

If rain or snow are happening to keep you indoors, here is a suggestion for a simple indoor activity for all our friends in the East Coast (and everywhere else in the world.)  We hope this activity will help you to engage with your young children and keep their minds (and yours) off the storm.  At least for a little while…

This activity is all about patterns.  We can find patterns all around us and the beauty of patterns is that we can observe them with a...

I spent the morning yesterday working on my computer at a coffee shop.  The screen had our illustrated owl image saying "Follow us on FACEBOOK", with the Facebook word being in bold.

A mother and a young girl passed by my table.  The girl, who was about 4 years old, suddenly stopped and stared at my screen. “Wow!”, I thought to myself, “the Enchanted Wonders website has such a magical effect on kids.  So magical, that it can actually make them stop everything and ju...

Some phrases stick with you for years.

One such phrase is something my legendary design professor said in class about 20 years ago.  Of course, this is the only piece of memory I have from that class of his, but this is what counts, no?

So what was that phrase that ended up being carved into my mind?  He said: “Always look at the details because every little detail has a reason”.

It does sound very simple but it took me a very long time to train my mind again to no...