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Explores toys or objects 
Description:
These activities aim to provide opportunities to explore toys and objects.
| Early years skill: | not specified |
| Early years typical range: | not specified |
| P-scales/Curriculum skill: | not specified |
| P-scales/Curriculum level: | not specified |
| TAP skill: | not specified |
| TAP level: | not specified |
| Pre/Nat. Curriculum Area: | not specified |
| Pre/Nat. Curiculum Standard: | not specified |
| Phoenix Area: | Learning and Engagement |
| Phoenix Step: | Step 9 |
| Section: | Early Years (0-5yrs) info; Primary (5-11yrs) info; Secondary (11-16yrs) info |
| Activity/strategy name and materials required | How to do the activity | Key principles for doing the activity and comments |
|---|---|---|
| Sensory Play - Sensory toys and materials for messy play (e.g. trays with sand/ cornflour and water/jelly). - The best toys are those that the child can manipulate easily to produce a result. | 1. Guide your child's hands and visual attention to toys/trays of material(s) that they can touch and look at. 2. Let your child explore the toys/materials in the tray and encourage them to investigate all their properties, stimulating all of the child's senses as far as possible (colour, smell, texture). 3. You may need to draw the child's attention back to the activity if the child becomes distracted. Use your voice to regain their attention (e.g. a drawn out "ohhhh!", or an intake of breath). | Do not continue with something the child has lost interest in, but wait a while before introducing another object. |
| Textured Toy Play Toys with different textures (soft, bumpy, smooth, squishy) | Allow your child to explore the objects any way that is safe. Don't ask questions and allow them to spend as much or as little time on each object. | |
| Household Object Play Safe household objects (cups, spoons, lids, boxes) | Allow the child to lead the play. Let them play with the objects in the way they choose, they do not need to use the objects functionally. |
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