Role play
Collection by Community Playthings UK
Role play is how children make sense of their world, acting out experiences, ideas or stories.
Occupation and exploration for inquisitive Twos
Role play and home corner furniture to delight and entertain your two-year-olds. This play equipment offers everything they could want - opening, closing, posting, turning and pushing!
Add an elegant touch to the role play or home corner
These solid wood tables for role play add a natural glow to your classroom environment.
Blocks for role play
Try Hollow blocks in the role play area! Let children create a new scenario every day - today it's a shop, tomorrow it might be a zoo or a fire station.
Encouraging empathy through imaginative play
Encouraging empathy through imaginative play
Why are children drawn to small world play?
In small world play children can re-live experiences and come to grips with whatever life is bringing their way.
Facilitating and supporting children's play.
Suggestions for teachers on Facilitating and supporting children's play. Good article.
I'm a bat
"Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking and feeling and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.” Jean Jacques Rousseau
A child's work: The importance of fantasy play
Are we really willing to let fantasy play disappear from our early years settings?