Nursery World - Under-threes play ideas

Play with mirrors helps build baby and toddlers' self-awareness and satisfies their fascination with people's movements and expressions

Make sure you provide only safety mirrors. Include mirrored tiles to hang on walls, indoors and out; large mirrors for the floor; hand-held mirror, ideally with handles on both side to make them easier to pick up; and mirrors that can be incorporated into displays.

You could also provide concave or convex mirrors or invest in a triangular floor mirror (www.tts-group.co.uk) or similar, so that a child can crawl inside and see their reflections on all sides.

Look out too for day-to-day objects that reflect images such as large spoons and pots, and reflective paper.

Create a large mirrored area on one of the walls in the baby room at toddler level so that the children can look at their reflections whenever they want.

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