Indoor
I have a variety of toys for babies and toddlers of different pre-school ages.
In accordance with the High Scope approach they are separated into different play areas.
I have
A large house and toy area with a play kitchen, presses and table,
A reading area for reading and relaxing
A toy area with lots of floor space,
A music and movement area with lots of space for running around,
A computer corner,
An arts and crafts area that has a gate to keep babies and wobblers out
A large easel suitable for 4 children
A sand and water play area
A dining area.
A quiet area for resting, and sleeping
A separate sleeping area for those children who still take naps
When I have a baby in my care I also set up a baby area.
These are some of the toys I have for playing indoors:
Baby toys like rattles, rings, activity centre
Baby hopper
Rocking horse
Play kitchen with wooden stove and sink, and pots, pans, play food...
Large variety of stuff animals and other soft toys
Variety of balls, incl. texture balls, small coloured bean bags
Wooden bowling set
Cones, skipping rope, etc.
Parachute (one for indoors, another one for outdoors)
Balloons and hundreds of other items in an extremely well stocked arts & crafts area
Hundreds of 'Schleich' animals with wooden fences and trees
Barrel full of 'Duplo' blocks, incl. various Duplo animals and figures
Construction sets (wooden and K-NEX)
Learning clocks (wooden and plastic)
Magnets, binoculars, stethoscope (real), bug watching kit
Shape sorter (various)
Stacking pyramids (various)
Bead mazes, beading sets for different ages (4 different sizes)
Threading games
Peg games (various for different ages and abilities)
Scales (different ones, normal and balance scales)
Cash register with toy bills and coins
Tape recorder with microphone, microphone, phone, etc.
Doctor's kit
Toy cars of different sizes and Brio lorry, tractor, trailors, crane, magnetic truck, and wooden trains, incl. 2 car mats
Large 'Brio' train set
Variety of dolls and furniture, clothes, etc. incl. emotion dolls, boy dolls, different coloured dolls,
Fully furnished doll house with 6 rooms
Jumbo box of beech wood blocks, also other smaller coloured blocks, coloured planks
2 Wooden marble runs ('Brio')- one fixed and one that can be designed
Large variety of children's books (hundreds)
3D truck puzzle
Costumes for dressing up
Pop-up tents & tunnel
Variety of wooden and cardboard jigsaw puzzles
Large variety of board games suitable from 3 years up also other games like Twister
Several different magnetic games such as various Geomag sets such as Geomag Classic, Geomag Gravity, Geomag Panels, Geomag The Original, M-Tic, Magformers (various), Large box of Smartmax (so that all ages have magnetic games to play with)
Lots of musical instruments incl. keyboard (see music page)
Lots of movement toys incl. 2 balancing bikes, tricycle, ride on train for indoor use
Gadget box with phones, empty make up containers, watches and various other bits and pieces
Cardboard boxes
Sand bag & boxing gloves
Educational computer games suitable from 3 years up.