Early years position

Barrier games build on children's natural desire to combine block play with small world items.

As children move around an obstacle course, adults can model positional language, encourage children to describe their movement themselves and create their own course.

In this activity, children are encouraged to follow familiar and new routes, and to create their own maps.

Children explore characteristics of shapes and use both everyday and mathematical language to describe them, talk about positions and solve problems

In this activity, the book 'The Doorbell Rang' by Pat Hutchins provides an engaging context in which children can explore sharing.

When investigating these tubes, children will have the opportunity to practise using everyday language to talk about length, size and position.

This activity provides an engaging context for children to consider the space they will allocate for some 'small world' toys, and how many toys they will be able to fit into the space.

This task uses the familiar situation of a shelf of objects to encourage children to use positional language and follow directions to find their wellies.