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What you have

Most good play needs nothing but you. Nothing here asks you to buy a kit, and the list below is ordered by how much you have to find before you can start.

Tell us how old your child is and we will put what suits them first.

How old is your child?
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Everything
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Nothing at all
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Things you definitely have
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Things you might have
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Something you would need to get

4 entries

  • A basket of real things

    Fill a basket with ordinary household objects and let them investigate, with you alongside rather than directing.

    6-20 months Things you definitely have Five or ten minutes

    51
  • Household objects to handle

    A step on from the basket: bangles, rings, tins and tubes that stack, post, nest and rattle.

    9 months to 2.5 years Things you definitely have Twenty minutes or more

    54
  • What's the time, Mr Wolf?

    One person is the wolf with their back turned. Everyone else creeps closer by asking the time, until the wolf says dinner time and chases.

    3.5 to 7 years Nothing at all Five or ten minutes

    101
  • Duck, duck, goose

    Everyone sits in a circle. One walks round tapping heads saying duck, until they say goose, and then there is a chase.

    3.5 to 7 years Nothing at all Five or ten minutes

    108