tray play

Have you tried light play in your setting? A simple concept with expansive opportunities for learning, light play can enhance all areas of the EYFS curriculum. In this post, we share our favourite ways to incorporate light play in your everyday. Create a dedicated light play area Set up a specific area within the continuous provision (indoor or outdoors) where...

In our last post we shared our ultimate tips for a fantastic tuff tray set up, along with sharing the incredibly variety we offer here at Cosy in terms of the trays themselves. This week we're taking things a a step further and showcasing our fantastic range of tuff tray enhancements: think tuff tray mats, tuff tray stands, tuff tray...

If you've been around in early years for a moment, you are likely to be very familiar with the humble (or not so humble!) tuff tray, or tuff spot. Coming in a variety of colours, shapes and sizes, tuff spots (or tuff trays) are ideal for young learners, allowing plenty of space for exciting resources, movement, and messy play. We're...

A inspiring selection of all the wonderful sustainable Cosy Green, upcycled and recycled Christmas and festive activity ideas. From activities and crafts using upcycled cardboard boxes, egg boxes, clippings from the tree, wooden pallets and cable drums. Check out all these wonderful Recycled and Green Christmas activity ideas from our Cosy Club members and Cosy Creatives. Christmas crafts - making...

We love tray play here at Cosy and Christmas is a fabulous time of year for doing all your festive crafts and activities in your tray. Containing the mess! We have collated all the wonderful Christmas tray play and activity ideas that we get tagged in to inspire you, along with some of our Cosy Creative's Christmas tray play ideas...

This mirror tray has become super popular over the past 12 months. Super shiny and magnetic, the options are endless on how to use it. It fits well on our Mini Deep Spot Tray Stand or you can get the sensory mirror tray and stand together. It adds a real mirrored sensory element to play. When used outdoors, it reflects the...

We get tagged in so many wonderful tray play activity ideas that we wanted to share with you some of our favourite autumn tray play activity ideas from our cosy club members. From regular tuff trays of varying colours, to mirrored spot trays and mirrored magnetic tray and of course our heuristic wicker tray, there are so many options for...

We get tagged in some wonderful ways to play with conkers and so we wanted to share these with you in this blog post. Did you know that Conkers is a traditional children's game in Great Britain and Ireland played using the seeds of horse chestnut trees—the name 'conker' is also applied to the seed and to the tree itself...

For so many people Autumn is their favourite time of year. The beautiful colours, natural treasures, the smell of autumn, fallen leaves and autumn crafts. Autumn begins in September and is a season famous for its harvest times, turning leaves, cooling temperatures and darkening nights. Did you know that Chlorophyll is the chemical that makes tree leaves green and as...

This little wicker mirror circle has been very popular recently. It is small, and yet so versatile. How would you use one? It is not only a perfect natural mirror for role play, displaying natural treasures and viewing expressions but also a great reflective small world area. Have a go at collecting natural materials and creating patterns to create a...