From crawling through a tunnel, balancing across crates, climbing up on to equipment, to jumping off as high as we possibly can…. Physical play is crucial for all our children as they learn what their bodies’ capabilities are and strengthen muscles, develop spatial awareness and hone their gross and fine motor skills and control.
Whilst moving, moving, moving pathways are strengthened within the brains and we become even more competent and skilful movers through repetition and development of our skills through play.
This doesn’t even factor in the collaboration, turn-taking, risk-assessing, communication that’s also naturally occurring and there’s often quite a bit of counting thrown in too and mathematical language through talk of how high we’ve jumped etc etc.
Early years play is truly holistic, but above all it is tonnes and tonnes of fun for our little ones!!!! 
