Let's sort and fold the washing!
Let's sort and fold the washing!
Children help to fold washing at home.
Materials Required
- Clothes/washing basket
Clothes line/washing line, Pegs
Play experience profile
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Ages:
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Min Playtime5 - 15 Minutes
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Skills
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Energy LevelQuiet Play
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Messiness Rating
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EYLF Outcomes
Play Experience Preparation
Have a free space prepared for you and your child to sit with the laundry and organise.Experience Steps
- If your child is interested they may be able to help remove clothes from clothes line.
- Talk to your child as you take items out of the basket.
- Talk about who owns each piece of clothing e.g. these are your brother's socks.
- Sort clothes in piles.
- Fold clothes with your child.
- Talk about each item e.g. this is red, this shirt is silky, these pants feel rough etc.
What to talk about, or questions to ask during the experience
- Sorting
- Folding
- Colours e.g. red, blue, green and yellow etc.
- Textures e.g. rough, smooth, prickly etc.
- Who owns this? e.g. mum, dad, brother, sister, baby etc.
- Basket
- Pegs
Build on this...
- Children can hang clothes on the clothes line.
- Children can use clothes pegs as a colour sorting game.
- Children can attach and take pegs off the side of a small basket/shoebox or container to further develop fine motor skills.
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This activity is a quiet activity. Please ensure your child has some physical activity included into their day - jump to the washing line etc.
EYLF Outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators.
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The Early Years Learning Framework has been designed for use by early childhood educators working in partnership with families, children’s first and most influential educators. View PDF
- Children develop knowledgeable and confident self identities
- Children develop their emerging autonomy, inter-dependence, resilience and sense of agency
- Children feel safe, secure, and supported
EYLF Principle
Principle 1: Secure, respectful and reciprocal relationships. Through a widening network of secure relationships, children develop confidence and feel respected and valued.
EYLF Practice
Practice: Learning through play. Play can expand children’s thinking and enhance their desire to know and to learn. In these ways play can promote positive dispositions towards learning. Children’s immersion in their play illustrates how play enables them to simply enjoy being.
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