Nursery Small-World Town: Tuff Tray Playmat

Small-World Town: tuff tray playmat A town playmat with roads, houses, a park, a pond, a car park, a shop and a crossing. Print on A3 or tile two A4 sheets for a tuff tray. Add cars, people and blocks to build stories. What’s included • Teacher guide with Development Matters links • Small-world town playmat (print at A3 for a tuff tray) Ideas for using it • Drive and tell: Drive cars to the shop and tell the story of the trip. • Build it up: Add block buildings on top of the outlines. • Road safety: Practise stopping at the crossing with small people. • Where am I? Hide a car; give clues using position words. Linked to Development Matters (three and four-year-olds) • Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction kits, such as a city with different buildings and a park. • Begin to develop complex stories using small world equipment like animal sets, dolls and dolls houses, etc. • Describe a familiar route. • Discuss routes and locations, using words like ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’. Supplied as a ready-to-print PDF (A4 landscape). Print, laminate and reuse all year.