Sarah's Farm Tuff Tray Mat Ideal for Tuff Spot Play Tray Black Tray not Included

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Sophie and Thomas loved playing with the animals and with the different textures of dry food making up the farm areas. I tend to add letters to our trays too, so we can sound out words together and encourage letter and word recognition. A busy tray is also big enough for your little one to actually sit in — a great way to encourage the development of their gross motor skills as they use different parts of their body to investigate.

To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Making nature collages was a popular activity with my girls, although I’ve yet to try it with Thomas. As with our standard sized mats, they're great for a change of scenery to encourage new types of creative and imaginative play.I used cornflakes as this is one of my go-to cereal foods to use, it can be crunched in the hand, rolled over with a rolling pin, scooped with vehicles or spoons and he loves eating it! What better way for Preschoolers to practice these crucial fine motor skills, than with some fun and creative tuff tray ideas? This edible farmyard activity is one of a set of 20 ideas that you will find in our farm theme toddler plans! I used cocoa pops for soil and put some carrot tops on it in rows, ready to be harvested by the farmer with his tractor.

The use of the fire engine was a great way of teaching my daughter about how they help us and not just when there is a fire e. If you want another theme, try the sea related ideas or these minibeast-themed ideas for activity trays.We used toys and props that we already had either in the toy or food cupboards making it really easy to replicate. Then I popped a big bowl of bubbly water on the Tuff Tray so they could clean the muddy farm animals too.

I am a 44 year old, home educating mummy, passionate about picture books, children's literature and learning through play. Before we got a little garden table for the children, the tuff tray was great for providing a flat surface for drawing and doing art projects. We had a brief chat about food and where it comes from and we watched a couple of YouTube videos of cows being milked – both by hand and by machine. Naturally we then ended up tipping the contents of the bowl into the tuff tray and using it as a splash pad. Walking on the Line is a fun and educational activity for all kids, whether you’re following the Montessori style of parenting and teaching or not.This tray is perfect for developing our preschooler's creativity as he can explore the animals and come up with stories. My original idea was to create an industrial, crop type of farm on one Spot and a country, animal farm on the other but in the end we had a mix of the two on each. I used homemade playdough for the worm tunnels and worms and added loose parts and other items for an extra sensory experience. I rolled a long green sausage out of play dough, squashed it flat and made lots of line indents all the way along.

Today this was very emotional for me as William gave his engines a tour of the farmyard, introducing Emily to all the engines and then giving her lots of hay to eat and hay bales (croutons). Perfect for enhancing your provision during a farm topic, these ideas work well in a large activity tray either inside or outside.If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. Again, I went with his interests and he was able to use his imagination and creativity with the peg doll and little pieces. This is one of my favourite trays I’ve done so far, just because of the message it teaches children. Different animals with different family units were used in the tray to link it back to how other children have different family setups.