Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Tried and Tested

Wheeled toys help develop children's gross motor skills and co-ordination and encourage co-operative play. Children in early years settings give the latest variations on bikes, trikes and scooters a road test and the practitioners tell Nicole Weinstein how they went

CREEPER SCOOTER

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Children sit on the scooter and manoeuvre it forward by swinging the handle left or right.

Tested by Alderman Leach Primary School, Darlington

'When the product arrived, some of the children thought it was a ride-along vehicle and used their feet to try to push it and drive it forward. Others noticed there was a foot rest and decided that it couldn't be a ride-along toy. Problem-solving skills came into play as the children tested out their ideas. Intense determination was evident as the children tried to work out how to make it move. Co-operation and collaboration seemed to be the key as the children persisted with the challenge. As they turned the wheel backwards and forwards, they began to notice it moving, and there was genuine excitement and a real sense of achievement when they realised that they had finally moved forward without using their feet. A couple of SEN children, who are unable to use pedal bikes because of general physical delay and mobility issues, were overjoyed to find themselves moving.

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