PD MH EE R3

  • 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.
  • 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, investigate and find out what they can make them do.
  • 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.