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Environments & materials for supporting physical play
A look at rich learning environments for supporting and encouraging young children's physical development.Good for looking at
- Physical play
- Enabling environments
- Materials and resources
- Fine motor development
- Gross motor development
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- The physical environment is crucial
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- for encouraging certain types of play and movement.
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- And resources that can inspire gross motor play
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- can vary widely.
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- So we can do rolls and skills.
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- Let's do double.
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- Fine motor development can be encouraged by
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- providing small toys and craft materials.
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- Good boy, and we pick...
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- Yay, good boy.
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- Well done.
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- Research shows that space encourages physical
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- play so the outdoors is obviously crucial.
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- Even a small area can be put to great use.
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- Resources don't need to be expensive,
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- and a bit of ingenuity can go a long way.
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- The children can even help with ideas to make
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- the space more interesting and inviting.
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- Natural materials, trees, tires, planks, and crates can all
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- inspire and challenge children's physical play.
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- Open-ended materials are full of possibilities.
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- Right, we're gonna put that one over there.
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- Being allowed to get messy is also essential.
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- As children master physical skills in an environment
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- where they feel comfortable to make mistakes,
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- mix up materials and create new ideas.
