I am jut wondering if it is just the age or if I am doing something wrong or maybe my schedule and supplies need tweaking? But my toddlers are horrible at free play! We do a lot of structured activities as this engages them the most but when it is time for free play they just stand around or wander?! I have lots for them to do and I am getting frustrated having to tell them how to play or what to play with. It's constantly "go and play" or "look at all the things you can do, go play with the kitchen and make some food, or play with the dolls and feed them or build with the blocks/ train tracks, or the farm" etc. do I have too many options? Once the do play with something, it's a few minutes! How do I encourage longer free play and imagination?! I have a dress up bucket that I bring out a couple times a week because when I had it out full time, they didn't play with it! My sons old daycare used to have no toys out but a few buckets of toys that they rotated and I hated it because my son wasn't able to play with lots of options and use his imagination, he was forced to play with the one item they brought out...but now I know why they resorted to this!! I have an art easel out all the time too which they never use unless I make it a big deal and encourage them too...thinking of getting rid of it!? Most of the toys that are left out all the time ( and rotated once a month) hardly get touched?! But if I bring them out every other day, they play with the?! Advice please!