Select and use activities and resources, with help when needed.

Choose the right resources to carry out their own plan.

Make imaginative and complex ‘small worlds’ with blocks and construction kits, such as a city with different buildings and a park.

Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them.

Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors.

Create closed shapes with continuous lines, and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

Explore how things work.

Explore different materials freely, in order to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.