Home area


The home area provides valuable opportunities for children to relate their home and school experiences. Provide familiar everyday items from the home (real, toy or made).

For example, include:

      • kitchen appliances, a kitchen table, a kettle, pots, pans, crockery, utensils, cutlery, recipe books, kitchen timer, apron, food items (including boxes, tins and packets)
      • baby doll, cot, clothes, baby products
      • coats, hats, purses (containing money and cards), bags, umbrella
      • clock, calendar, magazines, phone.

Example home role-play area, including a kitchen.

Role-play area


Provide children with dressing up clothes, accessories and props for pretend play that:

      • relate to your current theme or a context decided on in discussion with your children
      • are mostly simple and generic, so children can decide how to use them in their play
      • include props designed and made by your children.

Include clothes that also provide practice with everyday fastenings (e.g. zips, buttons, shoe fastenings).


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