Description
Enhance your early years environment with the Complete Small World Area 1-2yrs, a carefully curated collection of durable wooden figures and familiar shapes designed for smaller hands. These sturdy pieces support whole-hand grasping, two-handed manipulation, and hand–eye coordination, helping children explore objects safely while developing hand strength and coordination.
The small world resources are organised using accessible, eco-friendly natural baskets and displayed on an extra-low storage unit to create a complete solution for the classroom. The unit is designed at an appropriate height for very young learners, helping to create an inviting and engaging space for children to explore under appropriate adult supervision. Manufactured in the UK and delivered fully assembled, the classroom furniture is built to withstand the demands of busy early years environments and comes with a 10-year guarantee.
Featuring animals, vehicles and people figures, the small world area encourages children to pick up, hold, and handle the figures, supporting recognition of familiar objects and building early connections to everyday experiences. Repetition and familiarity help sustain interest, promote emotional security, and support confidence as young children explore at their own pace.
Children will enjoy the imaginary play that the collection offers as they use the animals, people in the community figures, and vehicles to begin early imaginative play and storytelling. Using these resources will help create opportunities for practitioners to support language development by narrating actions, responding to gestures, and modelling simple words and early sounds. This supports early communication skills and new language.
The area includes a wooden box which children can enjoy placing the wooden animals in and out of the box, supporting the containing and transporting schema. This helps children develop their understanding of space, movement, and organisation through play.
Combine this area with the Complete Small Blocks Area 1-2yrs to create further imaginative play opportunities. Children can create simple landscapes or structures alongside people and animal figures.
Explore the full range of Early Excellence 1–2yrs Classroom Resources to create a rich, engaging environment that supports sensory play, physical development and growing independence.
Learning Opportunities
- Exploring familiar objects and figures through handling and play
- Developing hand–eye coordination, hand strength, and whole-hand grasp
- Building emotional security through repetition and familiarity
- Making simple connections between figures and everyday experiences
This Small World Resource Collection 1-2yrs includes:
- Extra Low Level Open Shelving Unit
- Small World Resource Collection 1-2yrs
- Suitable for age 12 months and over, with appropriate adult supervision
Safety Information
For use with children from 1-2yrs: resources must ONLY be used with effective, close adult supervision. The competency and development of each child should be considered before introducing the resource into the environment. This must be regularly monitored and assessed as new children begin their learning journey within the environment.
For full safety information, please see Product Care & Safety Guidance Leaflet.
Variations
Many of our resources are produced in a variety of colours and styles and may vary slightly from those shown; however, we guarantee that you will always receive the same quality and value.
Secondary images are used for representation purposes only.
