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🍂🍃🍁Leaves – Sensory Play Stones🍁🍃 🍂🍃🍁Leaves – Sensory Play Stones🍁🍃🍂

Discover seasonal leaves with this beautiful set of 12 leaves in earthy tones, nurturing kids’ curiosity and creativity. Ideal for nature-based learning and exploratory play, these leaves are crafted to endure water, mud, and play dough, and are cleaned easily. 

The detailed textures and colors encourage sensory exploration, prompting kids to create imprints and rubbings with wax crayons.

#leaves #sensoryplay #seasons #playdough #exploreandinvestigate #playbasedlearning #natureplay
🦴 Dig and Discover – Ankylosaurus & Tyrannosa 🦴 Dig and Discover – Ankylosaurus & Tyrannosaurus rex 🦴 

Budding fossil hunters will love these chunky, tactile skeleton pieces that fit together to create two iconic dinosaurs: the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex and the armoured Ankylosaurus. Crafted from a durable stone mix, these fossils are perfect to bury in sand or soil for children to dig up and assemble, developing observation, spatial reasoning, and critical thinking skills.
Embark on a journey of discovery with this set of Embark on a journey of discovery with this set of eight beautifully illustrated double-sided wooden vehicles. The set is designed to develop children’s understanding of the vehicles, the people who use them and how they both contribute to our communities. Each piece showcases the exterior and interior of a vehicle, with lots of details to pore over.
✍️ Feels-Write Lowercase Letter Stones ✍️ ✍️ Feels-Write Lowercase Letter Stones ✍️ 

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 REVIEW…

“These stones are great to use both in the classroom and with intervention groups. You can allow children to discover a letter shape by giving them time to ‘play’ with the stones. The tactile nature of the stones means the children want to handle them and feel the letter shape. They can be combined with play doh or wiki stixs for children to make their own letters or filled with sand or water to add different textures to the experience. A great classroom resource.”

Michele Snow, Targeted Learning Team
Counting acorns in our Domino Ten-Frame Tray 🌿 Counting acorns in our Domino Ten-Frame Tray 🌿

This wooden tray offers a different representation of a 10-frame, enabling children to explore number patterns to 10 in a new way. 

Divided into two identical halves, each showing the familiar dice layout for five, the use of the tray will help children to subitise and develop early counting and number bonds skills in an enjoyable, tactile and highly visual way. Use one tray to explore numbers up to 10 or combine two trays for numbers up to 20.

#counting #maths #earlymath #tenframe #numeracy #acorns #natureplay #playbasedlearning
To celebrate National Literacy Day we are featurin To celebrate National Literacy Day we are featuring our wonderful NEW Alphabet Stamping Stones 🔡

Wonderful in sand and Playdough. Tag us in your play today 💛

#alphabet #literacy #earlyliteracy #playdough #playdoughplayactivities #playtime #teach #childcare #eyfs #preschool
🍂Woodland Animal Families Wooden Characters 🍂

This exquisitely illustrated set of 12 double-sided woodland animals is a wonderful way to nurture understanding of our natural world and will inspire children to learn more about it.

Members of each family face each other for extra play value. This also works across families, increasing opportunities for imaginary play and the development of storytelling skills. The flat bases allow the animals to be used in an upright position to better facilitate such play.

One side of each piece depicts a male/female adult, with each reverse showing a related baby in a different pose, enabling children to sort and compare the animals based on their attributes. This can be enhanced by studying the artwork with a magnifier. There are also clues to the habitats of the animals, providing a stimulus for discussion and the sharing of ideas.

The set is divided in to six families: divided in to six families: deer, fox, otter, owl, rabbit, and squirrel.

#play #preschool #earlyyears #eyfs #woodentoys  #forestanimals #teach #playschool #childminder
Woodland Wonders 🍂🍁🌳 learn about Woodland Woodland Wonders 🍂🍁🌳 learn about Woodland Animal families 🦊 A wonderful way to nurture understanding of our natural world and will inspire children to learn more about it.

Get your hands on them over on our website. Pop them in your backpack for lots of play opportunities 🌲 

#outdoorplay #forest #forestschool #forestanimals #smallworldplay #natureplay #preschoolfun #preschoolplay #playbasedlearning
Self-Regulation Stones These self-regulation ston Self-Regulation Stones

These self-regulation stones are an open-ended, flexible resource designed to help children express their emotions when they cannot find the words to do so. Choosing an image that represents their emotion will enable them to explore how they are feeling, what triggered this feeling and how it can be managed constructively, or celebrated. Being able to recognise an emotion and understand it more fully will enable healthy self-regulation, support children’s development and their engagement with others. 

#selfregulation #selfregulationskills #SelfRegulationTools #selfregulationtools #selfregulationforkids #selfregulationsupport #selfregulationmatters
An inspiring way to set up an emotion tray from @2 An inspiring way to set up an emotion tray from @2015kaytyson 💛
We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been sho We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for not one, but TWO Teach Early Years Awards 💛💛

Early Exploration Category: Ten in the Bed 🐻
Creative Play Category: Birds - Sensory Play Stones 🐦

We’ll be keeping our fingers crossed until November when the winners are announced! 

#awards #teach #teacher #school #education #yellowdooreducation #playbasedlearning #teachearlyyears
Have you heard the Sensory Sound Eggs?🥚 We to Have you heard the Sensory Sound Eggs?🥚 

We took them with us for a woodland walk, collected stick and feathers to make a nest and then added the eggs 🪺 

This beautifully realistic set of six speckled eggs contains three pairs of eggs with matching sounds. Highly tactile and enormously appealing, the eggs are a simple and enjoyable way to help children develop early auditory discrimination skills. Children will delight in finding out which eggs go together and have the same sound… and then muddling them up again to have another turn. They are also ideal for outdoor investigations and tough enough to be taken outside to be collected, sorted, and boiled in your mud kitchen pans! 

#outdoorplay #playbasedlearningnature #nature #natureplay #yellowdooreducation #learningthroughplay #sensoryplay #eyfs #earlyyears #imaginativeplay
These tactile stones have been designed to soothe These tactile stones have been designed to soothe and calm children, helping them to focus, concentrate and feel secure: key elements of productive learning. By holding and/or rubbing a stone, a child’s sensory input is occupied, helping to relieve stress and anxiety, freeing their mind to focus on the task in front of them.

Offering an appealing range of shapes, textures and natural colours 💛

#learningthroughplaying #openendedplay #sensorylearning #playbasedpreschool #learning #earlylearningresources #invitationtoplay #finemotoractivity #emotionsmatter #emotionalregulationskills #fidget #funkyfingers
How wonderful to see our Sensory Trails in action How wonderful to see our Sensory Trails in action here with @2015kaytyson 💛

‘Lovely calming setup in the woods using our sensory calming trail, beautiful tactile boards with sensory filler rustic bowls, and spoons’
💛 🌀 Sensory Calming Trails🌀💛 These be 💛 🌀 Sensory Calming Trails🌀💛

These beautifully designed nature-themed boards with tactile, recessed pathways offer an absorbing way for children to find a place of calm. Meet the Slow Snail, Friendly Fish, Cheerful Sunflower, and Gentle Butterfly! Carefully designed with curved sides for little hands to hold, children will benefit from the soothing, tactile feedback as they slowly trace their fingers along the trails. These rhythmic, repetitive movements help to interrupt stress responses, promote self-regulation and restore emotional wellbeing.

Encouraging focused breathing combined with tracing the paths aids in calming the mind and body, making these boards an effective strategy for reducing sensory overwhelm and supporting mindfulness. Perfect for use in calm corners or relaxation spaces, they also support pre-writing experiences, building fine motor control through gentle, guided play.

#finemotoractivity #education #learning #wildanimals #playbasedpreschool #imaginativeplay #sensorylearning #earlylearningresources #invitationtoplay #preschoolfun #handsonlearningfun #learningthroughplaying #openendedplay #themagicofchildhood #earlyyearseducation #handsonlearning
🌲🦌🍄🐻We love this activity in the fores 🌲🦌🍄🐻We love this activity in the forest with @playingwithprimrose 💛Featuring our double sided wooden Forest Animals and Sensory Leaves for printing into the dough 🍃

WOODLAND DOUGH

Another day another tree stump activity! Both girls had a fabulous time exploring this simple set up in our favourite place, the forest! They enjoyed squishing the playdough, pressing the leaf stones into it, matching the wooden animals to the book & collecting little nature treasures like alder cones & twigs to adorn the dough. We absolutely love this story and it was the perfect, whimsy addition to this play. 

🌲🦌🍄🐻🌲🦌🍄🐻🌲🦌🍄🐻🌲🦌🍄🐻🌲 

#forestfun #woodland #playdoughfun #yellowdoor #outdoorplay #forestschool 
#playdoughactivities #bookishplay #bookplay
🥰🍃Let’s Roll – Emotions🍃🥰 A helpf 🥰🍃Let’s Roll – Emotions🍃🥰

A helpful resource to start the new school year 👩🏻‍🏫 

These inventive rollers will help children to recognise and talk about six key emotions: happy, excited, sad, worried, calm and angry. Roll into play dough, clay or sand to create a body, and add a face to complete the emotion. Each design will provide lots of talking points to help children to express and understand how their faces may look and how their body may feel when experiencing a particular emotion.

#emotionsmatter #emotion #feelings #emotionalregulationskills #sensoryplay
🍃Finger Fidget Stones🍃 Ideal for occupying 🍃Finger Fidget Stones🍃

Ideal for occupying busy hands, these attractive stones have been created to support children who need some help with focused attention and concentration. With three different designs to choose from, a child can select a stone that they think they will find helpful to hold or feel in order to help still their body and mind. Their discreet natural colours and tactile nature invite sensory interaction.

#eyfs #eyfsideas #sensoryplay #fidget #funkyfingers
Let’s inspire each other 🍁🍂 Are you lookin Let’s inspire each other 🍁🍂 Are you looking for some Autumnal activity inspiration? Here’s a few of our ideas…we’d love you to tag us in yours 💛🤎🧡

#autumn #play #autumnal #eyfs #earlyyears #preschool #sensoryplay
🔊Fi Fi Fo Fum!…. Explore storytelling and st 🔊Fi Fi Fo Fum!….

Explore storytelling and story structure using this set of wonderfully illustrated story stones. Pick characters, settings and objects from these subsets as the basis of fantastic imaginative tales. What did the wolf do in the woods with the wand he had stolen from the fairy? Why did the princess give the giant an apple when she visited his cottage?

Get your hands on them over on our website 🔗 

#storytime #storystones #smallworldplay #eyfs #yellowdooreducation #learningthroughplay #yellowdoorplay #sensoryplay #earlyyears #playbasedlearning #imaginativeplay #outdoorplay #preschoollearning
🌿💦 Magical Story Stone Play 💦🌿 Take t 🌿💦 Magical Story Stone Play 💦🌿

Take these versatile Story Stones with you for a story telling adventure 🍃 

What stories would your little ones create?

#storytelling #storystones #literacy #yellowdooreducation #learningthroughplay #sensoryplay #eyfs #earlyyears #smallworldplay #imaginativeplay
Its not often that we see our Wooden Handa’s Sur Its not often that we see our Wooden Handa’s Surprise Characters in your play, but when we do…wow 💛

Thank you Honey Hive Early Years for featuring them 

🐒🍌Handa’s Surprise Bookish Play! 🍊🦓

“We’ve been loving reading African tales, and Handa’s Surprise is always a favourite at home and in the classroom.

This beautifully illustrated story follows Handa as she sets off to visit her friend Akeyo, carrying a basket of delicious fruit on her head… but on the way, cheeky animals have their own ideas! 🐒🍌

To bring the story to life, I found my Talk 4 Writing story map I’d made a while back and we retold the tale with our @yellow_door_education wooden characters. We explored the different fruits, tasted a selection, and even made our own fruit kebabs. Later, we sequenced the animals using our  number stones, and then innovated the story by swapping in new fruits for the animals to take. Of course, little one had to try being Handa too—balancing the basket on his head was the highlight! 🧺🍊🍍🍌

🎯 Storytelling play and early Talk for Writing activities like these build:

🌿Oral language skills – children internalise story patterns and vocabulary.
🌿Sequencing and memory – retelling helps them understand story structure.
🌿Creativity – innovating the tale encourages imaginative thinking.
🌿Confidence in communication – acting out and retelling develops expressive language.
🌿Early writing foundations – children rehearse language structures they’ll later use in writing.

Handas surprise characters, numbers and fruit stones all from @yellow_door_education available from YPO”

#smallworldplay #smallworldplayideas #EarlyLanguageSkills #yellowdooreducation #eyfs #eyfsideas #learningthroughplay
The NEW Play Stone Tower 🌿…perfect to inspire The NEW Play Stone Tower 🌿…perfect to inspire new stories and retell familiar tales through imaginative play.

Would you like a link?🔗

#1000hoursoutdoors #smallworldplay #smallworldplayideas #yellowdooreducation #eyfs #eyfsideas #learningthroughplay #sensoryplay
🦖🌿Budding fossil hunters will love these chu 🦖🌿Budding fossil hunters will love these chunky, tactile skeleton pieces that fit together to create two iconic dinosaurs: the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex and the armoured Ankylosaurus. 

#yellowdooreducation #eyfs #yellowdoorplay #eyfsideas #learningthroughplay #sensoryplay

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