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  • Home
  • Anti-Racism and Play
  • Playspaces
    • Early Years Centres >
      • Regina Early Years Family Resource Centre
      • Regina Early Learning Centre
    • Culture and Play >
      • Floral Consevatory
      • Government House
      • MacKenzie Art Gallery
      • Michaels Classroom
      • RCMP Heritage Centre
      • Royal Saskatchewan Museum
      • Saskatchewan Science Centre
      • Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame
      • Stone Hall Castle
    • Fenek Farms
    • Harbour Landing Village
    • Hiking Trails >
      • Condie Nature Refuge
      • Wascana Trails
      • White Butte Recreation Site
    • Libraries >
      • Albert Branch
      • Central and Children's Branch
      • Connaught Branch
      • George Bothwell Branch
      • Glen Elm Branch
      • Prince of Wales Branch
      • Regent Place Branch
      • Sherwood Village Branch
      • Sunrise Branch
    • Markets >
      • Centennial Market
      • Local and Fresh Market
      • Regina Farmer's Market
    • Neighbourhood Centres
    • Parks >
      • North Zone
      • East Zone
      • South Zone
      • West Zone
      • Central Zone
      • Accessible Parks
      • Spray Pads
      • Spray Pads
    • Pay to Play >
      • Amazing Adventure
      • Bee Happy Recreation Park
      • Dino Bouncers
      • Get Air
      • Happy Hollow
      • QC Soccer Facility
    • Regina Beach and Area
    • Skateboard Parks
    • Spray Pads
    • Swimming Pools >
      • Indoor Pools
      • Outdoor Pools
    • Tennis Courts
    • Things That Go >
      • City Bus
    • Winter Fun >
      • Toboggan Hills
      • Skating Rinks
      • Ski Trails
  • Community Play Calendar
    • Other Calendars >
      • Albert Branch Library
      • Central and Children's Branch
      • Connaught Branch
      • George Bothwell Branch
      • Glen Elm Branch
      • Prince of Wales Branch
      • Regent Place Branch
      • Sherwood Village Branch
      • Sunrise Branch
      • Regina Early Years Family Resource Centre
  • Book Club
  • Read and Play
  • Contact
  • Donate
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    • Schools and Play >
      • Schooling Options
      • Free Cree Language Course
    • Family Friendly Fitness >
      • LG Fitness
      • Local Barre
      • Mama Fitness
      • Project Barre
      • Regina Climbing Centre
      • YMCA Regina
    • Mental Health Resources
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Books and Playful Things

The above image was taken by Danielle Tocker in Regina.

DIY Wrapping Paper

Hand-decorating gifts is a fun, playful, eco-friendly way to delight your gift recipient and connect with little ones. This is also fun with or without kids! We use markers, pencil crayons, stickers, paint, or crayons - then we tie a pretty ribbon around our gifts and attach polaroid photos, dried oranges, paper cranes, or other fun things. You can purchase the prettiest ribbon from Crocus and Ivy (not sponsored). 

Even if you don't use the paper for decorating, rolling this out on your floor with some washable markers or pencil crayons, or stripping the kids down and getting out the washable paint will provide screen-free home entertainment for hours. Enjoy!

Purchasing these rolls from the links on our website will be the exact same cost to you. Amazon will give Project Play YQR a small portion of your purchase fee, however, which we use to purchase playful books for children in Regina. Cheers!
Click the image above to be taken to the amazon link to the kraft 100% recycled brown paper, and the image below for the link to the same paper in white.

Babies (roughly 0-18 months)

Play YQR distributes books to families with babies that encourage a love of literacy, language development, and play and interaction between family members. The following books are fun and playful for wee ones and their families.
Pat the Bunny makes a classic gift for babies and new parents. Babies and caregivers are asked to pat the bunny, play peek-a-boo, look in a mirror, wave goodbye and more in this fun and playful book.

Touch and Feel 123 is a colourful, fun, rhyming, and engaging board book. Its interactive pages encourage little ones and family members to experience different textures, develop a good relationship with books and reading, and learn about their world.

Sara Gillingham's Snuggle the Baby is a board book with a removable paper doll to snuggle, swaddle, diaper, and tuck in. It is perfect for children expecting new siblings. Children can read along and play with their new little baby in this straightforward, vintage board book that encourages people to love, tickle, and snuggle the littlest members of their families.
The well-known and loved Usborne touchy-feely books are so much fun to read with babies and toddlers. Try That's Not My Snowman ​this winter!

Playful Picture Books

I Spy Christmas: A Book of Picture Riddles The classic I Spy book series is is a wonderfully playful series that you'll want to explore over and over again. This series is surprisingly versatile; admire the beautiful photographs ad read the fun rhymes to babies for language development, bonding, starting new traditions and encouraging a love of literacy. As soon as the wee ones have more language, they will love to follow along with the riddles and find the hidden objects in the intricate photographs. Challenge yourself with the riddles, come up with your own I Spy games, or even complete the extra challenges in the back; this book will inspire playful literacy learning and bonding for years. Enjoy!
 In the Tree House​ is a beautiful storybook about the magic of play. Watch what happens in a suburban community and the relationships within when the power goes out and everyone comes together to play.

Tap the Magic Tree is an original and interactive book that engages children in more than just turning the pages of this book. Children are asked to help a tree change with the seasons by tapping it, jiggling it, blowing it a kiss, and more. A classic that children will turn to over and over.

The Book With No Pictures is a creative and brilliant read-aloud book that absolutely inspires play, love of reading, and wonderful bonding and attachment between those reading it together. This has become an absolute classic that belongs in any home and classroom.

Book Club

Richard Louv's Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder 

Radha Agrawal's Belong​: Find Your People, Create Community & Live a More Connected Life

Simone Davies' The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

Linda Åkeson McGurk's There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather: A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids

Eve Rodsky's ​Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)

Ingrid Fetell Lee's Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness

Instagram Books - Playful books shared on August 7th, 2019

Baby Touch and Feel: First Words
Baby Touch and Feel: Animals
Touch and Feel: Dinosaur
"More More More," Said the Baby Board Book
Mommy, Mama, and Me
Black & White by Tana Hoban
Daddy, Papa, and Me
Baby Dance
Babymoon
From Head to Toe
From Head to Toe Board Book
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Priddy Baby Lift-the-flap: Baby's Day
Indestructibles: Hello, Farm!
Baby Touch and Feel: Colors
Yum Yum Dim Sum
There's a Wocket in my Pocket
Everywhere Babies
Where The Wild Things Are
You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around the World
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes...
Birds
Ten Little Fingers
Toes, Ears, & Nose!: A Lift-the-Flap Book
Regina and these playspaces are situated on Treaty 4 territory, the original lands of the Cree, Ojibwe, Saulteaux, Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. Provided by the Government of Saskatchewan and offered by the University of Regina, there is a Cree language learning resource available under "Schools and play."
Photo used under Creative Commons from schnappischnap