Provide time and space to enjoy energetic play outdoors daily.
Provide large portable equipment that children can move about safely and cooperatively to create their own structures, such as milk crates, tyres, large cardboard tubes.
Practise movement skills through games with beanbags, cones, balls and hoops.
Plan activities where children can practise moving in different ways and at different speeds, balancing, target throwing, rolling, kicking and catching
Provide sufficient equipment for children to share, so that waiting to take turns does not spoil enjoyment.
Mark out boundaries for some activities, such as games involving wheeled toys or balls, so that children can more easily regulate their own activities.
Provide activities that give children the opportunity and motivation to practise manipulative skills, e.g. cooking, painting, clay and playing instruments.
Provide play resources including small-world toys, construction sets, threading and posting toys, dolls’ clothes and material for collage.
Teach children skills of how to use tools and materials effectively and safely and give them opportunities to practise them.
Provide a range of left-handed tools, especially left-handed scissors, as needed.
Support children with physical difficulties with nonslip mats, small trays for equipment, and triangular or thicker writing tools.
Provide a range of construction toys of different sizes, made of wood, rubber or plastic, that fix together in a variety of ways, e.g. by twisting, pushing, slotting or magnetism.
Provide access to waterproofs, wellington boots and a changing area where children can dress/undress independently.
Provide equipment that supports different kinds of schemas, so that children have an opportunity to build on natural patterns of movement.
Agree acceptable levels of risk and challenge, identify hazards and actions needed to maximise opportunities indoors and outdoors.
Adapt or create spaces to ensure that children with limited physical mobility can move safely and with confidence.
Teach children how to access, use and store resources safely to build independence and autonomy.
Provide materials to create enclosed spaces and dens such as fabric, poles and pegs.
