Helping to Support Teaching and Learning
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Imaginative Play
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This collection encourages imaginative play with wooden pieces in tonal rainbow colours, allowing children to create small worlds and enhance storytelling.
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Creative Storytelling
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The set encourages children to develop complex stories using small world equipment. It helps them understand how one object can represent another, enhancing creativity and narrative skills.
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Role-Playing Skills
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Children are encouraged to take on different roles during play, which enhances their social interaction and communication skills. This promotes verbal expression and collaborative play.
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Expressive Arts Support
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Supports expressive arts and design by enabling children to make imaginative and complex small worlds. This fosters creativity and artistic expression through hands-on play.
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Communication & Language
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Aligned with the EYFS curriculum, this collection encourages communication and language development. It helps children engage in pretend play, taking on different roles and enhancing verbal skills.
Loose Parts Wooden Tonal Shades Collection
A curated collection of loose part pieces in varying tones of wood to support in imaginative and creative play.
Overview
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These loose part pieces bring together a vivid world of imagination and creativity to support in small world explorations and construction. Working on children’s early literacy skills, communication and language, mathematical development and problem solving.
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Loose Part play can strengthen early mathematical skills as it enables children to sort and classify the different shaped pieces like pebbles, boulders, and arches. It can also foster language development through play by using descriptive language. With a variety of tones you can encourage new vocabulary during discussions. As children manipulate these beautiful wooden pieces to create their narratives and structures, they delve into a world of language and storytelling. This can develop their literacy and creative thinking skills, laying the foundation for more complex learning as they grow. It offers opportunities for children to work independently or collaboratively in group activities.
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Supporting the EYFS curriculum, this loose parts collection can help achieve learning outcomes across mathematics, expressive arts and physical development. By facilitating activities such as sorting and stacking, they promote understanding in numerical patterns and spatial reasoning, alongside the manipulation of different shapes and sizes in small hands, catering to early childhood development.
Supports the National Curriculum
EYFS, Communication & Language
Develops pretend play.
EYFS, Expressive Arts & Design
Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’.
EYFS, Expressive Arts & Design
Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses.
Product Information
Overview
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40 pieces – 4x pebbles, 6x boulders, 6x ball cups, 6x balls, 4x arches, 2x cones, x6 people cups, x6 people
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Made from wood.
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Suitable for age 3 years and up
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40
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