Theatre & Music Cottage

Drums

Social-emotional: cooperation and co-creation, parallel and group play.

Cognitive: cause and effect understanding when creating sounds, supporting a sense of rhythm, that is essential for pre-reading skills.

Creative: creating and leaving a mark with sound.

Percussion

Social-emotional: cooperative play and co-creation when playing from both sides.

Cognitive: understanding cause and effect when figuring out different sounding areas of surface, and practicing with rhythm, that is essential for pre-reading skills.

Creative: creating, combining and leaving a mark of different sounds.

Clock and bell panel

Cognitive: understanding cause and effect when ringing bell, learning about numeracy and time in a tangible way.

Creative: leaving a mark in creating new positions on clock or with sound creating a rhythm when ringing or knocking the bell.

Shelf

Cognitive: suggests a theme and supports dramatic play, which stimulates languages and communication skills. Gives the option of hiding or storing items as part of dramatic play or explorative play.

Desk flaps w. holes

Social-emotional: cooperation, turn-taking and parallel play inspired by the two flaps.

Cognitive: shifting things through holes to shelf supports logical thinking and the understanding of object permanence.

Mirror

Cognitive: understanding of individuality and self expression. Stimulates dramatic play and thus language and communication development.

Desk

Social-emotional: fine meeting place and a space creator. Sharing and cooperation from both sides create a social scenario that supports communication and cooperation.

Xylophone music panel

Social-emotional: invites social interaction and co-creation for more children, on both sides.

Cognitive: understanding of cause and effect when striking tubes and creating sound.

Creative: the creation of different intensity and tonality stimulates creative skills.