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The Early Years Education Sector
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items As an early years practitioner I am going to share some must haves which I believe you need to help educate and develop your child’s learning and skills.
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What you will find in most baby rooms
What toddlers love and need
The essentials for the preschoolers
What you will find in most baby rooms
Everything relating to the ages from birth to eighteen months
Black and white cards are a must have to help with visual tracking, brain development, early cognitive growth and creating bonding opportunities! My daughter was able to lift her head and hold it from a very young age and was amazing at tracking no t...
Black & White Cards
Tummy time is a must!! It is a great way to help build your baby's strength and muscles that they will eventually need to start sitting and crawling. My daughter was very early in her development and I do believe it is because I done a lot of tummy t...
Tummy Time is important!!
Nothing babies and toddlers love more than touching everything you don’t want them too! These boards are the best for all children to discover and learn new fine motor skills.
Sensory Boards
Another wonderful activity to make
tummy time fun.
Tummy Time Water Mat
Sensory trays are amazing for the young minds to explore different textures and materials. I love linking my sensory tray to a book to really delve into the book and experience the scenes within the book.
Sensory Tray
Beautiful wooden vehicles to enhance children’s imagination
Wooden Vehicle
Colour and shape sorter. My babies love posting so a toy like this is amazing and they’re learning without even realising.
Fisher-Price: Shape Sorter
Baby walkers to hold onto and promote the next stage in development from crawling to walking. Of course all babies are different and will do it at their own pace so don’t force this upon them!
Baby Walkers
So much fun for babies and toddlers! Our babies especially love playing peek a boo in the tunnels and tents.
Play Tent And Tunnel
A massive YES! What child doesn’t love musical instruments? This is very beneficial especially in babies, music and singing help promote communication and language skills.
Kids Musical Instruments
We use these bibs daily for our babies during meals times to keep them clean and mess free.
Silicone Bibs
We have this circular table and chairs in my early years setting and it’s amazing for our babies (9 months plus). The children all get to sit together at meal times and it’s at the perfect height for them to reach the floor whilst sitting down so the...
Circular Table and Chairs
Wooden cots are a must for our babies to sleep in. Remember 10 minute checks!!!
Basic Wooden Nursery Cot
Highly recommend these books!!!
They’re amazing, so many different stories and they really are indestructible.. Myself and some colleagues have tested them out ourselves.
Search Books | Waterstones
Firm favourites for my 1 year old babies in their role play kitchen. It’s amazing for fine motor and hand eye coordination and also so much fun!!
Velcro Fruit And Vegetables
Does your baby love the wet wipes and filling g them out all over the floor? Then this is the toy for you!! There is 6 and more different skills babies learn from this simple but fun activity for your baby.
Tissue Box Montessori Toy
We have one like this for our babies when we go out on outings, it’s amazing and the babies love to ride in it and take in their surroundings.
WonderFold Wagon
All ages love these but they’re perfect size for our babies. They’re amazing blocks to start off your babies skills in building with resources.
Mega Building Blocks
What toddlers love and need
ages two year old to three year old
Amazing for all ages!! The development and imagination which comes with playdough is endless.
Play-Doh Sets
Threading promotes hand-eye coordination, fine motor control, and concentration. It is a calming activity with lots of talking points and benefits but also fun for the little ones.
Threading Beads
Another amazing activity for little minds and their fine motor skills.
Inset Puzzle
These are amazing! They are nontoxic, safe and easy to grasp for toddlers to help distinguish different shades and marks.
Chubbie Egg Crayons
My daughter loves her water mat and it’s amazing for us parents not to worry about crayons and paints all over the walls and floor!!
Water Drawing Mat
Sensory trays are amazing for the young minds to explore different textures and materials. I love linking my sensory tray to a book to really delve into the book and experience the scenes within the book.
Sensory table
Who doesn’t love playing with a train track?
Train Track
Our children love these vehicles, using them to develop their imagination
Vehicles
The best wooden toys a child could want! Full of imagination and possibilities for new learning opportunities.
Chad Valley Wooden toys
Another item we have across all three classrooms, so beneficial in so many ways to all ages. It is amazing for boosting language, literacy, cognitive, and social skills.
Sing With Me - Nursery Rhyme Bag
All children love them! Great for creativity and imaginative play.
DUPLO® Building Bricks & Sets
I’m obsessed with this beautiful wooden animal set. They’re perfect for babies (6m+) and toddlers to explore and start to develop imaginary play.
Wooden Animal Figures
My daughter absolutely LOVES this set, she plays with it most days! She sees us making hot drinks daily so she’s very happy she can now mimic what we do and make us and herself a cup of tea.
Chad Valley Wooden Tea Set
A firm favourite for all children, my daughter is obsessed with all her babies and it gives endless fun. Baby role play is so good at developing imaginative play and learning how to be kind and caring for others.
Baby Dolls
The essentials for the preschoolers
Your preschoolers will love these items
The preschoolers love exploring activities on our light up table. So many opportunities and activities possibilities with this amazing table! And it comes in different sizes too.
Sensory Light Table
A firm favourite by all the children!!
Magnetic Tiles & Building Blocks
Such an amazing activity! Perfect for practicing fine motor skills by using tweezers and being able to sort by colour and numbers.
Sorting Dinosaurs
A favourite in our setting with the toddlers and preschoolers! So much fun and a good way to develop gross motor skills on rainy days as well as learning turn taking.
Montessori Climbing Frames Set for Childrens
Our children love these colourful ribbons during music time, a fun way to develop gross motor skills without knowing.
Dance Ribbons
Perfect Lego box for older children! I love a box full of pieces with no instructions so the children can use their imaginations to build whatever they please.
LEGO® Creative Box
These are amazing for helping children develop concentration, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination through squeezing and transferring liquids! This is perfect for having fun but also strengthening hand muscles needed for writing.
Giant Pipettes For Children