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Know age-appropriate toys and activities for young children from birth to 5 years 11 months

Watch ‘Age appropriate play with toddlers’ produced by Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital which looks at toys, activities, and books that can be used with a toddler. Watch the video and make notes. How can you adapt the activities in this video for older and younger children?

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Tutorial Video
Reading Materials

‘Development Matters from the Department for Education
'Your guide to age-appropriate toys’ on the Parents website
'Developmentally appropriate activities for all ages’ from Child Fun

Presentation
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning

This article from Community Playthings describes how ‘Treasure Baskets’ can be used with young children.
Click the icon to visit the NHS’s interactive Birth-to-Five development timeline resource which provides a guide to the milestones that, broadly speaking, a parent can expect a child to achieve.
This second article from Community Playthings is about ‘Enjoyable play from the first months’.
The Hands on as we Grow website contains ‘Hundreds of indoor activities for kids under 5’

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