Activities for toddlers
In your ‘kitchen’, you could have pots, pans, and plastic play equipment like mixers, bowls, spoons. Your ‘lounge’ could have a toy telephone, a pretend tea-set, doilies, plastic flowers, etc. 6. Change these areas every 5 to 6 weeks.
7.3.2 Criteria for choosing aids and materials
1. Children can pretend without aids, but their play can be enriched by providing fantasy materials. 2. Choose materials and equipment with thought and safety. Consider the interests, development and experiences of the children.
3. Remember, the child must be able to use the materials for what he needs it for. 4. Too much equipment can be confusing. 5. Too little equipment can be boring and not stimulating. 6. Te child should understand some of the ‘situations’ and be able to learn about new situations. 7. Te furniture should look real but scaled down to the child’s size.
7.3.3 Cardboard and cartons
Te common box or carton can offer an endless number of possibilities for temporary equipment. Here are some ideas for the fantasy area, using cardboard boxes. 1. Stoves: Make from sturdy rectangular boxes about 24 to 30 inches high. Attach wooden beads or knobs on the front of the carton for heat selector dials. Secure them with plastic-coated wire and a disc of plastic on both sides of the cardboard to prevent tearing. Cut a three-sided opening for a door and use masking tape to reinforce the fold instead of a hinge. Insert an inverted box inside for an oven floor. To make a latch, hook a yarn loop on a button that has been secured with plastic discs on both sides of the cardboard.
2. A doll bed: Make from a shallow box of appropriate size. Turn the top flaps to the inside of the carton and secure, sew, or tie flaps down. Use a pillow for a mattress and cover it with sheets of a blanket.
3. Shelves and cupboard: Set cartons inside other cartons.
4. Desk or a dressing table: Invert carton, open and down. Cut open one side for kneehole space. Cut like a T and fold back to reinforce opening. Can also be used as a fireplace.
5. Television: Cut a hole in the bottom of a carton, leaving a frame for a hole, and turn on its side.
6. Table: Turn a carton upside down, reinforce, leaving two sides open.
7.3.4 Collect these props for suggested fantasy play
Te Post Office stamps mailbag mailbox letters packages money rubber stamps cash drawer.
Baker hat pans apron
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