- Stock up a tool box: You can buy some toy tools but your children will love it if you add in some real builders materials too. Try tape measures, big paint brushes, child-size spanners and screw drivers.
- Nuts and bolts: Twisting nuts and bolts together is great fine-motor practice and the children will relish the opportunity to try out some real builders kit.
- Hammer and nails: don’t rule out letting your children play with hammers and nails. Yes, they will need you to keep an eye on them but let them have a go with some small hammers. Try using blocks of polystyrene to hammer the nails in
- Cardboard boxes: add cardboard boxes of different shapes and sizes
- Add in the right clothes: Providing costumes encourages the children to try on different roles as they dress up.
- Try sand: add trowels and buckets or toy trucks and diggers to your sand pit and let the children experiment with wet and dry sand.
- Add in some writing for older children: Clipboards and a pencil. Let them sketch out what they are planning to build and write a list of the equipment they need to collect. Add in a tape measure so they can work with numbers too.
