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Monday 21 July 2014

"Where I Live" Small World Play

 A couple of months ago, Wugs and I were in a taxi on our way home from shopping and he kept uttering over and over "second condo on the right".  I had no idea what he was referring to until we approached our condo and I leaned forward and said to the taxi driver, "Second condo on the right please".  Wugs was so familiar with me providing directions to the taxi drivers that he was beginning to remember them.  It occurred to me that it would be really useful for him to learn how to get home if we were separated.
What we used:
A2 size paper
Contact paper/sticky back plastic
Marker pens
Stickers
Cars
Figurines
Modular buildings

I tore off a piece of paper from our A2 pad and drew out a basic map of where we live, making the roads large enough for Wugs to drive his cars down. I drew a few landmarks on the map that are special to Wugs (the juice shop, the cupcake shop and the play gym).  Then I covered the map in contact paper.  (This turned out to be a very wise thing to do as the map was attacked by Dooey and water was spilt over it).  Finally I scattered a few modular buildings and signs and added the Singapore taxis.

We went through the main route that taxis take to our condo pointing out the landmarks on our way. As I have been teaching Wugs about traffic lights (that green means "go" and red means "stop"), we went through the different scenarios together involving "the little green/red man".  I didn't have a sign for this, so I adapted one using stickers and coloured pens and we played out the scenario of crossing the road with Lego figures.  Wugs spent at least an hour playing with it and talking about the cars being dangerous and turning left and right.  This was probably one of his favourite small world plays and it was so easy and cheap to make.


2 comments:

  1. this is a great idea! I have a large roll of paper that would work perfectly for this project. Thanks so much for sharing it at our Summer Family Fun Linky Party this week

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  2. Thanks Linda, I hope you have as much fun as we did. Thank you for your linky party. It's great to share ideas!

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