- Anticipate young children’s exuberance and ensure the space is clear and suitable for their rapid and sometimes unpredictable movements.
- Provide opportunities to swing, spin and bounce.
- Provide different arrangements of toys and soft play materials to encourage crawling, tumbling, rolling and climbing.
- Use music to stimulate exploration with rhythmic movements with and without stimuli.
- Ensure that toddlers spend lots of time outdoors experiencing uneven ground and changing gradients.
- Provide a daily walk (out of pushchairs) in the immediate locality: the same walk every day is most valuable at this age.
- Provide a range of wheeled toys indoors and outdoors, such as trundle trikes, buggies for dolls, push carts and wheelbarrows.
- Offer heuristic (exploratory) play with sets of simple natural and household objects for toddlers to manipulate and explore.
- Provide items for filling, emptying and carrying, and a variety of materials to put into them.
- Provide materials that enable children to help with care-taking tasks such as sweeping, washing, pouring and digging.
- Provide sticks, rollers and moulds for young children to use in dough, clay, mud or sand.
