(2 – 3 years old)

• Encouraging the children to use words to resolve conflict.
• Activities to encourage positive peer interactions such as working on a group mural, playing co-operative games or helping each other with tasks.
• Encouraging self-help skills such as children attempting to dress themselves.
• Extending fine motor skills such as threading large cotton reels and using paper and straw pieces.
• Gardening, such as watering and caring for plants.
• Painting, sand, water and slime play to encourage sensory awareness.
• Learning how to manipulate the tools of art such as paint brushes, scissors, crayons, textas and glue.