Activities
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