05/10/2026
🌿 Maths Champions: Small World Play 🐾
Small world play is full of opportunities to explore maths — often without children even realising they’re doing it!
For this activity, we created a sensory small world using animals, coloured water, wood chip, sawdust, grass, logs and bark. This gave us lots of opportunities to introduce mathematical language through play, from talking about height and position to exploring different routes, directions and distances.
We know children are holistic learners, and every child will engage with the tray differently depending on their stage of development. Our team observe and interact, creating environments where children can discover and explore. They follow children’s interests and ideas, sensitively adding resources and modelling vocabulary to support every child.
Because maths really is everywhere when you know where to look! 🌱🔢💚
📍Based in East Grinstead & Haywards Heath