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Click Clacks & Marble Runs – These are great for early turn taking, fine motor and listening and attention skills. Teach them to listen and have fun playing by seeing whether they can wait for: Ready…Steady…Go!

Books with sound effects – Learning to make pretend noises such as animal sounds or transport noises is a great stepping stone to vocalisation and words. Turning pages and pressing buttons is a lovely fine motor activity. Pressing buttons and hearing sounds is a great cause and effect activity.

Role Play Toys -We love toys that help children pretend and use their imaginations! Farms, garages, dolls houses – watch what children are doing with them and give them a simplecommentary – Oh look! Teddy is enjoying his cup of tea with dolly! It really helps children to link the words with what they are seeing and doing

Pop up toys – Children love games and this is a great one to learn to take turns. It also promotes anticipation – and maybe how to learn to just take part and not always be a winner – a great way to build on coping strategies and resilience skills!

Orchard Toys creates teacher-tested educational games, puzzles, and activity packs designed to make learning fun for children aged 18 months to primary school age

First words book -It’s great to have photos of real objects for babies and toddlers to look at to build on understanding the world around them. Turning pages and pointing at pictures and words are great fine motor activities. A first words book with real photos is a brilliant investment.

Rhyming books -Children can enjoy sharing rhyming books. They help to share attention skills, listen
to sounds in words and learn to love books. Turning pages and pointing and finding objects on pages all build the muscles in little hands and fine motor skills.

Books with carrier phrases, or repeated sentences – Great for repeating the carrier phrase throughout the story and listening to rhyming
words