Does your toddler throw EVERYTHING? Do you constantly find things in weird places because your toddler moved them? Have you noticed your toddler loves hanging upside down? All of these could possibly be explained by play schemas! In child development play schemas are patterns of behavior seen in pla

Positioning! Have you noticed your little one lining up all of their toys? Or perhaps they like to create patterns with different objects? Positioning is a popular schema. I often see children at our sessions lining things up. Here's all you need to know about the positioning schema. #sensoryandmessyplay #toddlerclassescornwall #babygroupcornwall #edibleplay #minimessmakers #myminimessmaker #messyplaycornwall ##schemasofplay

sensory play activities involving schematic play themes 1. Transporting Schema Children enjoy moving objects from one place to another. Water Play:...

Schemas! Schemas are in every moment of play. Children often have a favourite schema that they lean into when playing. Does your little one like throwing things? Or dropping things off of their highchair? Then they might be a fan of trajectory. #sensoryandmessyplay #toddlerclassescornwall #babygroupcornwall #edibleplay #minimessmakers #myminimessmaker #messyplaycornwall #schemasofplay

Have you ever spent hours preparing a beautiful invitation to play only for your child to play for approximately 6.35 seconds? Maybe you’ve spent a small fortune on beautiful open-ended toys for your child to show absolutely no interest. Or maybe you keep finding your toddler playing in the dogs water bowl or throwing their […]

If you would like to create an engaging and effective learning environment and confidently plan learning experiences that perfectly match the cognitive development of each child in your class, this blog post on play schemas is for you. Understanding play schemas and being able to pinpoint the ones your students are developing is critical to the success of your early childhood classroom.

Do you have students interested in wrapping, covering, or hiding objects or themselves? If you do - then you have students with the enveloping play schema. In this blog post, we'll explore the enveloping play schema in-depth and you’ll discover heaps of activities to support it in your classroom.

Support the Transporting Schema with hands-on play based learning invitations.and discover the benefits of this play schema in early childhood education in this blog post. Explore 28 activities to support this schema in your classroom and help your little ones transport their way to learning!

The connecting schema is all about how things connect and separate. If you have children in your classroom tying things together, fascinated with tape or building and knocking over towers of blocks, you have children developing their connection schema. This blog post will explain exactly what this p

by Claire Sands Why does he keep taking the blocks and hiding them? Why is she always wrapping things in blankets? Why do our children do the things they do. This blog post explains schemas and why knowing about them can really help us to understand our children's behaviour and to provide play opportunities they'll engage with. You can also read our other blog posts in this series: What is Play?, The Importance of Play, Barriers to play, The Play Cycle; My Sofa: Enabling Environments, Easy…