Early years size

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.

This task provides a real-life context for children to compare capacities in order to choose the biggest container for their lemonade.

This task provides children with the opportunity to investigate halving different shapes and check that they have made two halves.

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

In this task, children will practise using a variety of timers to work out how many items they can put into a jar before the time finishes.

Using the spring scale in this activity provides an engaging context in which children can explore and discuss the weight of different objects.