{"id":1336,"date":"2022-02-12T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2022-02-12T05:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-12T05:08:00","slug":"small-world-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/small-world-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Small world play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things which make a child feel more powerful than small world play. As well as working their fine motor skills it\u2019s also a great opportunity to learn about the world around them and control what happens.<\/p>\n<p>Small world play in the Early Years is<strong>\u00a0a style of imaginative play which uses toys or props.<\/strong>\u00a0It encourages children to use these small props and their imaginations to create detailed and playful worlds. They can use a range of tools to inspire their play, including toys you can make together.<\/p>\n<p>Here are 5 ways to make small world play even more fascinating:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make a real ocean scene by putting sea creatures in a bath. Add some green wool for seaweed for extra fun.<\/li>\n<li>Separate animals according to their habitat by having two bits of (fake) grass and asking the child to identify which animals belong together.<\/li>\n<li>Recreate a polar scene with ice cubes. Blitz then in a blender to make snow, or scrape some ice off the inside of the freezer!<\/li>\n<li>Make a construction site in a sandpit. There are endless hours of fun to be had lifting and tipping sand using miniature diggers.<\/li>\n<li>Let your imagination inspire a fairy garden. Fill a broken flowerpot with earth, grass and any flowers you want and make some fairies with paths, a miniature swing, a little house or even tiny chairs and tables.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small world play in the Early Years is\u00a0a style of imaginative play which uses toys or props.\u00a0It encourages children to use these small props and their imaginations to create detailed and playful worlds. They can use a range of tools to inspire their play, including toys you can make together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,169,232],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childcare","tag-activities","tag-fine-motor-skills","tag-imaginative-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nannyjob.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}