A great way to encourage and increase imaginative play is to change up the setting. When's the last time you let your children play in the woods? This ranks as one of my top "things to do with kids" and I bet it will become one of yours, too! Armed with rubber-tipped toy bows and arrows while we crashed deafeningly through the woods, the children went “hunting” for tigers and wolves in the Five Mile Woods in Lower Makefield Township, Pennsylvania.