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Enabling Environments: Let's explore... holidays

Encourage children to draw on their own experiences for this topic,
says Marianne Sargent.

The summer holidays are almost here and with them comes the prospect of sunny days, light evenings and for many a six-week break filled with days at the beach, picnics in the park and trips abroad.

Holidays is a good role-play theme because most children will have been away somewhere, whether home or abroad, and will have these experiences to draw on.

This summer, set up role-play areas both indoors and outside that provide opportunities for the children to act out the entire holiday experience - from packing their bags and boarding a plane to checking into a hotel and playing on the beach.

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