As part of our Aeroplane Theme on The SEN Resources Blog we’ve made a toy airport out of masking tape and duplo. Simple and quick activity that provides hours of imaginative play fun! What do you need: Masking Tape (quite a lot!) Pen Something to make your airport […]
We needed a break from the beautiful sunshine this week and what better way to spend a couple of hours in the shade, than to complete the fun activities in The Mr Tumble Something Special Magazine. For those of you who haven’t bought it before (or read my […]
In my opinion, imaginative play is fantastic for helping children to process information and make sense of it themselves. That’s why we adored the Learning Resources Pretend & Play Original School Set (UK version) that facilitates children to play pretend schools, helping them to prepare for the real […]
It’s our Superhero week on The SEN Resources Blog and we were delighted to be asked to try out some SuperHero Top Trumps. This well known and popular card game is fantastic for family time. The aim of the game is to look at the statistics on your […]
We’ve had hours and hours of wonderful, imaginative play this week using these super hero costumes by TTS Group as part of our Superhero Week on The SEN Resources Blog. In our pack were three different coloured costumes designed to fit young children (although I can confirm they […]
Starting primary school is an exciting milestone and understandably many parents will want to help prepare their children for their first day. There’s lots of ways to help prepare your little one (have a read of our top tips from primary teachers here) but there’s also fun activities […]
What do you do if your once water loving child/toddler/baby suddenly becomes scared of having a bath and refuses to go in? It’s difficult to believe, when you’ve got children that love water, that they can suddenly become frightened by bath time. From one week splashing and enjoying […]
For young children who are making sense of our world, small world, Imaginative Play can be fantastic and enjoyable. As part of our Dinosaur Themed Week on The SEN Resources Blog we were kindly sent an Active World Tuff Tray Dinosaur Mat by TTS Group to try out […]
For those of you that follow us on Twitter or Instagram, you may also have seen the messy fun we had on Friday trying out an array of wonderful equipment from Early Years Resources to help practise mark making. What is Mark making? It’s simply making marks using […]
As a former secondary science teacher I was ridiculously excited to get the opportunity to try out the Letterbox Lab – a science experiment subscription box that is posted through your door! It didn’t disappoint! It’s a brilliant, exciting set of science experiment kits that show children how […]