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Simple, fun and adaptable ideas that use a variety of cheap resources to engage and stimulate young children's thinking, by Alice Sharp Food, food, food * Glue a set of six clear magazine photographs of fruits that babies and toddlers in your care will recognise on to white cards.

* Glue a set of six clear magazine photographs of fruits that babies and toddlers in your care will recognise on to white cards.

* Buy real examples of the fruit in the photographs.

* Place the cards and fruit in a bowl or basket.

* Sit on a mat with one of the babies in your care and place each of the cards on the floor beside the bowl.

* Look at one photograph at a time, name the fruit, describe it and name it again.

* Take the fruit from the bowl and compare them to the photographs. Match some to the cards and mismatch others, then exclaim when you correct your mistake!

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