Toy vehicles are a perennial favourite with children of all ages. Give your charges a box of miniature cars, tractors and lorries and you are likely to enjoy a long spell of peace and quiet as they get stuck into creating their own little world.
Small-world play helps children to develop their imaginations and make sense of whatever scenario they have created. For instance, setting up a pretend crash scene with toy vehicles - which children don't do as morbidly as we adults might think - allows them to explore the movements, sounds and emotions of such an incident, and have tremendous fun. For this reason it's important to give children the time, space and freedom to play independently.
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