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  Planning and resourcing
Movement and Space
 
  • Provide novelty in the environment that encourages babies to use all of their senses and move indoors and outdoors.
  • Offer low-level equipment so that babies can pull up to a standing position.
  • Provide tunnels, slopes and low-level steps to stimulate and challenge toddlers.
  • Make toys easily accessible for children to reach and fetch.
  • Plan space to encourage free movement.
Health and Bodily Awareness
 
  • Provide a comfortable, accessible place where babies can rest or sleep when they want to.
  • Plan alternative activities for babies who do not need sleep at the same time as others do.
  • Provide safe surroundings in which young children have freedom to move as they want, while being kept safe by watchful adults.
Using Equipment and Materials
 
  • Provide resources that stimulate babies to handle and manipulate things, for example, toys with buttons to press or books with flaps to open.
  • Use gloop (cornflour and water) in small trays so that babies can enjoy putting fingers into it and lifting them out.