Indoors Toys
  • Jigsaws/puzzles
  • Board games, memory games etc.
  • Duplo/Lego
  • Soft toys
  • Farm
  • Zoo
  • Train track
  • Small world figures plus accessories – princess castle, pirate ship, ark
  • Happy Land figures and accessories
  • Dolls/babies, babies bath, bed, pram etc.
  • Musical instruments
  • Books
  • Dress-up (plus relevant accessories e.g. doctors bag)
  • Kitchen, play food, shopping trolley and till
Creative/Messy Play
  • Painting – we try using a large range of accessories (including our hands) to paint with
  • Drawing: crayons, pencils, pens, chalks
  • Sticking using a variety of craft materials, cut-out pictures etc
  • Colouring in
  • Word puzzles
  • Playdoh – we have many play-doh accessories, including the ice-cream shop, sweet-shop and crazy hair man
  • Salt-dough – we play with the dough, make favourite shapes and then bake them. When they are cool we paint and varnish them and use them in play or take them home
  • Papier-mâché
  • Baking
  • Helping to prepare meals
Outdoors / Outside the home
  • Sandpit
  • Water table
  • Playhouse
  • Climbing frame plus slide
  • Seesaw
  • Scooters/bikes
  • Vegetable patch for growing and digging
  • Bug Hotel
  • Playgroups (these may vary as we find/try out new groups)
  • Parks, this will include visiting the large play equipment, feeding the ducks, nature walks, walking the dogs
  • Museums
  • Soft Play centres such as Funtown (Garston), Go Kids (Speke) etc.
  • Libraries
  • Other outings, e.g. farms, zoos, beach