01 Oct 2025
Essential resources: take a humble spoon...
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This Nursery World article celebrates the everyday spoon as a powerful learning tool in early years education.
It highlights how spoons can support children’s development through sensory exploration, imaginative play, and hands-on learning. From mixing, scooping, and pouring to role play and music-making, spoons encourage fine motor skills, coordination, and creativity. The piece reminds practitioners that simple, familiar objects can offer endless opportunities for discovery, problem-solving, and engagement across all areas of learning.
