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This handy Harvest Festival Tuff Tray resource is filled with twelve fantastic activities that are ideally suited to EYFS learners. Your kids can easily explore these creative activities in a large tuff tray. Messy play can begin any time but usually starts when children are approaching two years old. This is when a child’s fine motor skills in dexterity are developed enough to have control over activities in a tuff tray. Tuff tray ideas for 2-year-olds should involve objects and materials in simple groupings such as colours and textures. Open-ended play should be promoted where children can manipulate the contents of the tuff tray any way they want. Our little learners make sense of the world around them through their senses of taste, touch, sight, sound and smell. For this reason, sensory play is an incredible way for us to support our little learners in exploring and learning about how things work. Tuff trays are so versatile. There are so many ways to use them and the play ideas really are limitless. Simply search for any wooden loose parts you can find and pop them of your tuff tray for an easy, sensory activity your toddler will love to explore.

Children love exploring jelly. They can explore it from inside the tray or outside depending on their confidence level with sensory materials. Hiding toys in the jelly helps to keep children’s attention – include objects to support the different themes you may be covering on different days. Always ensure children are well supervised at all times. Try adding different textured materials for sensory play and bury items underneath for children to hide. The tray can be used to expand interests or experiences your child has had before or introduce new ideas and knowledge.

Below is a Construction Small World that we set up in our play room for our digger-loving toddler. Would you believe that NONE of those little stones made their way through the house? He stood and played there quite happily. EYFS tuff tray ideas at this stage of development don’t need to be structured as specific games or tasks, giving children the freedom to explore and build confidence using the tuff tray should be the central goal. This familiarity will help them to feel comfortable approaching more complex tuff tray games and activities as they grow older.

All of these Sensory Tuff Tray activities for Toddlers are meant to keep them busy and happy while you get a couple of jobs done or sit down for a much needed cuppa! Active World Tuff Spot Tray are great for keeping paint in one area. Filling the tray with a selection of different colours and allowing children to use this for foot painting is a fantastic activity, simply make sure you hold their hands so they do not slip. Alternatively using their hands children can make their own marks in the paint and then print their drawings using paper to take home or display. You could incorporate some big art tools to pattern and mark make. Discovery The harvest moon is the first full moon during the autumn equinox. This is usually between the end of September and the beginning of November. Tuff tray play needn’t be hard work or take lots of setting up. This simple farm based tuff tray idea gave the toddler a good hour of fun play and took mere minutes to set up. We used toys and props that we already had either in the toy or food cupboards making it really easy to replicate. Here’s what we did… Tuff Tray Ideas: Simple Farm FunA simple and popular use for the tray in settings is to fill the tray with play balls. Children as young as 8 months love to sit in the Tuff Spot Tray amongst all the colourful balls. The balls will often end up all over the room but toddlers can help fill the tray again and often enjoy hiding objects for each other to find. Schematic Play You can also add food colouring to the ice to make it more interesting. Coloured ice can be used to paint pictures with as well.

To fix a warped Tuff Tray, simply place the tray in the sun-filled with water for a few hours. How to use a Tuff Tray When filled with a variety of materials and objects, tuff trays help children experience new textures, get messy, and understand the world around them through miniature scenes. Julia Donaldson’s ‘The Gruffalo’ provides a lovely opportunity to teach children about nature, and we’re loving Charlotte’s approach with this autumn theme.

You’ve got the lovely natural smells, the different textures of the materials, and your little one is learning so much through it all. Then you can add in other textures, like oats, Bran flakes, Cheerio’s, or Weetabix to make it a bit more interesting if you want.