Let’s play! You, us, everyone!
When we play, we learn, develop, experience and grow. Our creativity expands. Our bonds strengthen. We de-stress. That’s why we at IKEA believe in children’s right to play and in play as a basic need of every single human being.
So join us in celebrating the power of play because we'll be highlighting how, by simply seeing home as a playground, building play into each day can be easy – as easy as, well, child’s play!
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw
Creativity for good
We welcome all IKEA Family kids aged 0-12 to join our annual Soft toy drawing competition, held at IKEA stores between 15 - 17 November 2019. The winning designs will be turned into next year’s SAGOSKATT plush toys, to be sold in IKEA stores, all over the world in support of children’s right to play. So come and let your imagination run wild!
SAGOSKATT – designed by kids
Designed by kids in our annual Soft toy drawing competition, the fabulous new SAGOSKATT collection includes a cucumber superhero, a dancing red robot and a sock-wearing rainbow.
Co-create sustainably with us
Welcome to MÅLA Studios, an imaginative playground dedicated to co-creation with IKEA. It’s about sustainability, craft and easy drawing for kids, their parents and their carers. Formed of reused flat-packs from the store, at MÅLA Studios kids are free to be resourceful with how they reuse materials. Here, we’ll also host events like the Soft toy drawing competition and other creative workshops during Let’s play! and beyond.
Spot the BLÅHAJ!
Instead of a single kids play area, we’ve sprinkled our stores with several special children’s activities during Let’s play! One of them is Shark Trails, a fun treasure hunt in which our BLÅHAJ soft toy – and limited-edition baby shark version – are hidden all over the store. So grab a map and pop a mark on it each time you spot one of these iconic plush toys. And if you like, share your funniest finds with us using #blahaj #IKEAshark.
