Small world play is such a great activity to engage in with toddlers and preschoolers. This all about me activity is not only fun and exciting, but helps toddlers and preschoolers develop important skills. The characters help develop language, communication, and encourage imagination. It's easy to put together and is incredibly versatile, too. Follow the step by step directions below to use these fun characters for some small world play!
For more fun educational projects, check out this all about me craft, this pop art project, this Picasso art activity, and these exciting rock faces. Toddlers and preschoolers will have so much fun with these too!
If you've never engaged in small world play before, don't worry. It's super simple to do! These characters will help young children to imagine themselves and family members in certain situations. In doing so, they learn to develop language and communication through storytelling. Small world play stimulates imagination as they think up different stories. You get to watch their little minds at work!
The best part though is how simple these mini me's are to put together! They're a laminated photo stuck onto a wooden block. This all about me activity couldn't be any easier!
Scroll down to start engaging in some small world play with this all about me activity!
All about me activity
Small world play supplies:
- Full length photos
- Laminator and laminating pouches
- Small wooden blocks
- Double sided tape
All about me activity directions:
STEP 1: Prepare your photographs
Choose a few photographs of your toddler or preschooler, family members, or friends for the characters - anyone that is really important to them! (Just make sure it is a full body photo.)
Reduce the photographs down in size and then print them out in colour. Cut around the figures and laminate them, trying to make each of them a similar size.
STEP 2: Make mini me characters
Tape each photo to a small wooden block with double-sided tape. Repeat for each character you've selected.
Note: for younger children, you may want to attach the photos to larger blocks so they're easier to hold. If you don't have any wooden blocks, cardboard tubes or small drink containers will work well.
STEP 3: Engage in small world play
Now it's time to play with your fun new small world play characters! Set up an activity around your toddler or preschoolers favourite theme and introduce the mini me characters. No matter if they love cars, dinosaurs, fairies, farm animals, or something else - these work so well for any theme.
Toddlers and preschoolers will enjoy using these mini me figures to act out different scenarios and use their imagination to create fun new stories. You can even jump in as they watch you act out different scenarios!
These all about me activity characters are such a great way of encouraging older toddlers and preschoolers to develop story telling skills as they take them on different adventures. Younger toddlers can practice the names of their loved ones.
These small world play figures can be used in more ways than one, as you can see. Continue to reuse them in different ways! Try taking photos of people in different outfits. How fun would it be to play with sister as a fairy or daddy as superman?!
We hope you enjoy engaging in small world play with these fun all about me activity characters! Toddlers and preschoolers will have so much fun acting out different scenes with their favourite people! This is such a great way to work on language and communication skills as well as having fun!
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