Description
Introduce Early Years children to the exciting world of animals and imaginative storytelling with the Small World: At the Zoo Going Home Discovery Bag 2-3yrs.
The Early Excellence Going Home Discovery Bags contain high-quality Early Years resources and age-appropriate books for children to explore with their caregivers at home. These ready-made play packs are designed to enhance communication and language skills through engaging learning opportunities while fostering meaningful parental involvement in their child's development.
The Small World: At the Zoo Going Home Discovery Bag 2-3yrs includes a small world wooden zoo set featuring animal figures such as elephants, lions, and penguins, along with zoo-themed props to spark imaginative play. The set also comes with two engaging books offering opportunities for storytelling and exploration of language.
Children will develop their pretend play skills as they set up their own zoo scenes, take care of the animals, or give the animals and people their own personalities and roles within make-believe stories. Introduce leaves and twigs from outdoors for children to create natural habitats for the animals. These activities help children to build rich language and social skills as children describe the animals, their sounds, actions and habitats.
Use the Early Years resources to spark conversations with children; “What sounds do the animals make?”, “What food might they like to eat?”. Playful interactions between children and family members nurture and develop children’s social skills, encouraging children to share their own ideas, create stories and build confidence.
The small world set offers a range of fine motor opportunities. Children can carry out schematic play as they line up and count the animals to develop early counting skills, along with using the wooden blocks to experiment with balancing and stacking, hand-eye coordination, and problem-solving skills. Watch as they challenge themselves to balance the blocks to build enclosures or create imaginative structures, developing their concentration and creativity.
Use the wooden animals alongside the zoo themed books, encouraging children to find the correct animal for each page of the book. These simple activities support bonding between the parent and child.
The set is conveniently stored in a transparent zipped bag, making it easy for practitioners to share the learning resources with families to take and enjoy at home.
Explore the full range of Going Home Discovery Bags and Going Home Story Bags for more creative ways to develop parent partnerships.
The Small World: At the Zoo Going Home Discovery Bag 2-3yrs includes:
- A high-quality wooden zoo playset, including animal figures, trees, and zoo-themed props.
- 2 age-appropriate books linked to the resources
- 1 transparent plastic book bag with closing zip and sturdy fabric carry handle, approx. 34cm x 39cm x 8cm
- Suitable for age 2 and over
Safety Information
For use with children 2-3yrs, only with appropriate adult supervision.
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.
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