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  • Tonies, Yoto and Voxblock /collections/audio-players-and-age-appropriate-educational-tech

    A selection of Audio players and age appropriate tech
    Read our audio player comparison 

  • Christmas gift ideas and stocking fillers

    Whether you are searching for a particular item or browsing you will find everything from role play, toy kitchens to audio screen free devices./collections/christmas-gifts-and-stocking-fillers
    Christmas resources 

  • Play trays and tuff trays

    A selection of tuff trays and sensory play trays. Jellystone Tray Play – the perfect solution for endless fun and imaginative play. This lightweight and portable tray is ideal for playtime. 
    Play trasy and tuff trays 

  • Emotion rollers

    These rollers will help children to recognise and talk about six key emotions: happy, excited, sad, worried, calm and angry. Roll into play dough, clay or sand

  • Brand NEW POLARB Wooden role play range

    Just arrived we have a lovely range of role play toys from hair dressing, play tills to Dentistry and Tool benches

  • Roll around Feel calm

    Support feelings of relaxation, calm and wellbeing while improving fine motor skills. Moving the rollers reveal sensory patterns. Strengthen hand muscles, laying the foundations for future handwriting.

  • Emotions

    This set of tactile emotion stones has been developed especially for young learners. Featuring the four emotions that young children most readily experience – happy, sad, surprised, and angry,
    Search the Yellow Door range here 

  • My Mood Stars

    Sad, Happy, Cross, Grumpy, Tired, silly

    Mood stars 

  • Play tray stand with a FREE TUB TRAY to go in the top for play

  • A great selection of bugs, lady bugs, bees, play stones and bug hotels

    Bees and flowers

    bee number pebbles, bee number cards, wooden shape veiwers
    bees 

  • Autumn Autumn esources

    Whether you are looking for trees, dough rollers, sensory stones with pine cones, dinosaurs or woodland resources you will find everything here.
    Autumn resources 
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Why create a provocation?

In early years a provocation encourages curiosity, promotes critical thinking and deepens understanding.

Using a mix of loose parts, containers, natural materials, toys and resources together you can provide a set up that covers all the seven areas of learning within the Early Years Foundation Stage.

From your provocation you can watch as children engage in open ended play, listen to their speech and watch their play while they use a mixture of their senses and experiences to create their own play. It is important to know what you want to provide and what you are intending intending for the children to learn from this. Bare in mind the play may not go to plan but this is absolutely fine = it is their play.

By observing you can extend the play by offering other items e.g. should I child begin to use a cup for pretending to drink, why not offer water, tea bags and little spoons?

We have some great letter and number pebbles where you could spell words and names and add to play.

Read our review on our potion set Ofsted loved it.

Potions loved by OfstedLetters to add to set ups