Home & Garden

Broad table platform

Physical: cross coordination and spatial awareness when crawling over and under. This trains secure navigation of space.

Social-emotional: space for meeting, resting and socializing.

Cognitive: dark green horizontal panel and the sand colored vertical panels support the understanding of space.

Play spheres

Social-emotional: can be played from both sides, encouraging cooperation.

Cognitive: cause and effect understanding.

Creative: leave a mark and place the spheres at different positions.

Crawl-through hole with curtains

Physical: the hole allows for climbing and crawling through, developing cross coordination, proprioception and spatial awareness.

Social-emotional: cooperation and turn-taking when playing with friends on the other side.

Cognitive: understanding of object permanence: things can disappear without being gone forever – a thrilling insight.

Den

Physical: crawling trough the possible openings trains spatial awareness.

Social-emotional: the enclosed space invites social play for two or three children.

Cognitive: the differently shaped holes (triangle, circle, square, square with curtains) invites naming and exploring shapes, supporting the understanding of shapes, space and measures.

Desk with sieve

Social-emotional: children can gather and store materials, cooperate and take a break together.

Cognitive: sand can be shifted through the sieve, for understanding of cause and effect and object permanence.

Bench

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

Theme

Cognitive: suggests a theme and supports dramatic play, which stimulates languages and communication skills.

Themed element

Cognitive: set a tangible theme and thus spur dramatic play. Dramatic play is a great trainer of language skills.

Window

Social-emotional: invites interaction between sides and cooperative play.