Role play

This versatile role play kitchen is perfect for any setting. Furniture height is adjustable for toddlers or reception age children.

This elegant J650 Child's sofa adds a classy splash to the nursery, and a touch of home to your setting. This solid wood furniture is comfortable for adults too.

This solid wood table is perfect for early years and reception classrooms. Picture it in the role play corner or the book corner!

Children can use Hollow blocks to create their own role play structures.

Role play, dramatic play, imaginative play - everyone agrees its essential. It starts with lots of storage space.

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!

These solid wood tables for role play add a natural glow to your classroom environment.

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.

Nancy Stewart writes: Children who show self-restraint in following the shifting rules of the play gain the great pleasure of belonging, as they develop cooperative play with others.

Encouraging empathy through imaginative play

Role play, dramatic play, imaginative play - everyone agrees it's essential.

In small world play children can re-live experiences and come to grips with whatever life is bringing their way.

Suggestions for teachers on Facilitating and supporting children's play. Good article.

"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

Are we really willing to let fantasy play disappear from our early years settings?

Putting a doll to bed is a comforting, calming moment for busy children.