We are very excited to be able to give away one set of Clicformers to three lucky winners on Twitter this week, courtesy of the lovely people at Magformers! For more information about our giveaway please head over to our Twitter Page to find our Competition Tweet. To enter […]
We’ve been putting the children’s fine motor skills and creativity into action this week with this brightly coloured, exciting construction toy Stems by Learning Resources UK. What are they? Stems are bright coloured, ‘C’ shaped, plastic construction toys that can be popped/zipped to one another to build anything a […]
Playing imaginatively with toy cars is an activity that so many children enjoy. Not only is great fun but Children can learn a whole host of skills from this activity. To further enhance this imaginative play activity, we love creating play roads for the children to push their […]
As part of our focus on Aeroplanes this week on The SEN Resources Blog, we’ve been fortunate enough to try out the Clicformers Transportation Set. It was our first time playing with Clicformers and we were very impressed with how fun, educational and unique they are. Clicformers are […]
I love Imaginative Play, it’s wonderful watching children make sense of our world through pretending. It also develops a number of skills including social skills, language and creativity. We’ve been focusing this week on Construction Imaginative Play. Here’s our collection of activities, toys and resources for children that […]
We’ve been playing with toy construction vehicles and building as part of our focus on Construction Imaginative Play this week on SEN Resources Blog. But why should Imaginative Play and Fun be limited to play time? We don’t think is should and that’s one of the reasons we’ve […]
This week is all about ‘Construction Imaginative Play‘ on our blog. Here’s 14 of our favourite ‘construction themed’ books: (amazon affiliate links) -I love, love, love Rosie Revere Engineer and its message on gender equality and not giving up. I would highly recommend it. It’s currently my children’s […]
I love sand play, but hate that it ends up everywhere! I also hate that it can irritate little one’s eczema and sensitive skin. That’s why we decided to try Porridge Oats. Not only are Oats nice on skin, if you do it outside the mess becomes a lovely […]
This construction kit for budding, pre-school engineers is absolutely brilliant. It contains screws, bolts, pieces of wood (with pre-cut holes) a spanner, hammer and screwdriver. Everything a child needs to make their very own chair. Or use their imagination and make whatever sparks their interest. My stars: There’s […]
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