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Messy Play Facts
We give children a choice of exciting materials and activities, enabling them to explore different concepts for themselves. Tactile and interactive activities can help toddlers and preschool children to develop. Hands on messy play such as painting, sticking or sand/water play are important ways for a child to develop their physical, cognitive and social skills. Participating in messy play activities is not only great fun but it helps a child to increase their self awareness and appreciation of what they can create. .
……Stickybobs helps stimulate children’s imagination and creativity as they:
- Use everyday objects in new and different ways
- Begin to understand their effect on the world as they manipulate materials
- Improve their problem solving ability through creative play
- Learn to experiment and explore in a safe environment
- Practise making creative, lateral connections e.g. making peas and fish fingers from play dough and sand
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……Stickybobs helps children to develop their social and emotional skills as they:
- Work alongside one another and learn by example
- Understand their own value as they see others learning from them
- Understand that messy play is fun as they watch their carer and the other adults in the session joining
- See that there are many different ways of reaching a goal or using materials
- Learn to co-operate with other children – children as young as 12months will laugh at each others actions – particularly with sand and water play
- Enjoy creating in their own way and learn to have pride and self assurance in themselves and their creations
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……Stickybobs helps children to build strong communication and literacy skills as they:
- Practise mark making and discuss their activities with others
- Play with and learn to manipulate shaped different tools such as glue spreaders, paint brushes, rollers, toothbrushes, paint rollers and cotton reels to list but a few
- Improve co-ordination and strengthen muscle control when they position pieces of collage or manipulate a paint brush to make marks in a specific way
- Communicate about what an exploring activity feels like and what happens when they treat it in different ways
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……Stickybobs helps children to learn basic mathematical skills as they:
- Form concepts of size, shape, colour, quantity and capacity
- Make pictures where they place certain numbers of pieces on the page
- Explore different textures and shapes
- Play with sand and water, e.g. pouring water or sand from one container to another
- Problem solve – how do I make these collage pieces look like a face, how do I make my sandcastle stand up like that one?
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…… Stickybobs provides opportunities for children to develop physical skills as they:
- Explore the room and use the larger equipment, helping their gross motor skills
- Use a paint brush, improving their fine motor skills
- Practise using a pencil or felt tip, their mark making will develop from random scribbles to deliberate areas of colour
- Position collage materials and improve their finger control
- Stick stickers onto backing sheets improving hand eye co-ordination
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