Investigating the Natural World Set - Rollers, Sensory Stones + More!

Investigating the Natural World Set

This collection will help children explore and understand the changing seasons and weather around us.

• This set will enable children to bring their personal sensory experiences and learning about the outdoor world.

• All the resources have been carefully developed to inspire language-rich play, encourage observation and extend vocabulary. Suitable for ages 10 months and up.

• Let’s Roll Seasons – 24 rollers to take you through the year. Simply roll into play dough or clay and stamp to complete each scene. Spring: daffodil & flowers, egg & bird’s nest, blossom & orchard, lamb & sheep, froglet & tadpoles, and duckling & duck. Summer: sunflower & garden, strawberry & strawberry patch, dandelion & lawn, swallow & rooftops, baby owl & mother owl, and butterfly & flowers. Autumn: falling leaves & tree, blackberry & bramble, carved face & pumpkin, acorn & squirrel, spider’s web & plants, and apple and apple tree. Winter: bird & branches, snowflake & snow, holly & winter wreath, face & snowman, reindeer & mountains, and star & fir tree.

• Four Seasons Trees Wooden Play Set - beautifully detailed double-sided trees are a fantastic addition to small world play scenes and storytelling. The set features the following trees: apple, beech, cherry, douglas fir, hazel, oak, Scot’s pine, silver birch. Look closely and you find lots of seasonal details including those animals who make their homes or find their food in each habitat: bee, blackbird, butterfly, crossbill, crow, deer, goldcrest, jay, long-eared owl, merlin, mouse, pheasant, rabbit, robin, squirrel, woodpecker.

• Let’s Investigate Nature Sensory Stones - highly tactile stones reflect the found treasures children might discover in the natural world. This set contains eight stones: acorn, dandelion seed head, feather, pinecone, snail shell, spider’s web, sycamore leaf and sycamore seeds.

• Weather Stones - open ended resource you can - record the weather, make a forecast, sort by the different conditions, press in playdough or create stories alongside other resources. This set includes ten engraved and painted stones representing: dark cloud, light cloud, hail, rain, rainbow, snow, sun, sunny intervals, thunderstorm, and wind.