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Mr Fox Crafts – handmade wooden toys and collectibles

Mr Fox Crafts - handmade wooden toys and collectibles

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      • Woodland animals
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Symbolic Play and Cognitive Development

March 31, 2025
Symbolic play and cognitive development

How symbolic play can aid cognitive development.

Categories Blog post, Play Tags dramatic play, Howard Gardner, imaginative play, Jerome Bruner, multiple intelligences, narrative thinking, open-ended play, pretend play, small world play, W. George Scarlett

Why pretend play is so important in early childhood (3-5)

February 19, 2025

How play is different from entertainment. Why pretend play is so important for young children aged 3-5

Categories Blog post, Parenting, Play Tags dramatic play, imaginative play, open-ended play, pretend play, small world play, symbolic play

How Play Can Be Healing

February 11, 2023
wooden dwarf figurines

Find out how play can be therapeutic and how to encourage meaningful healing play.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags dramatic play, imaginative play, open-ended play, open-ended toy, play therapy, playing with animal figures, pretend play, small world play, wooden toys

How to Encourage Symbolic Play

January 28, 2023May 30, 2022
wooden toy people

How adults can foster symbolic play (also known as dramatic play, imaginative play, pretend play, small-world play, make-believe play.

Categories Blog post, Parenting, Play, Toys Tags dramatic play, imaginative play, open-ended play, open-ended toy, pretend play, small world play

The importance of symbolic play

January 12, 2022
wooden toy people

Are your children too old to play? Why is symbolic play so important? How can we encourage it?

Categories Blog post, Play Tags dramatic play, imaginative play, pretend play, small world play, symbolic play

Playing with toy bears

October 10, 2021May 9, 2020

Find out how you can enrich children’s play by learning more about bears.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags bear in folklore, books about bears, brown bear, pretend play, wooden toy bears

Playing with toy sheep

January 28, 2023April 25, 2020
wooden farmers and sheep toys

Playing with wooden lambs and sheep could be meaningful and fun. Parents and teachers can help enrich children’s play. Here we offer some ideas and information.

Categories Blog post, Play, Toys Tags Mr Fox Crafts, open-ended play, pretend play, small world play, wooden farm animals, wooden toy lamb, wooden toy sheep, wooden toys
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