Play at Home
What is Play at Home?
Take a look at quick and easy ideas here to keep little ones entertained at home.
It’s great if you can get out and about but if you can’t, there’s plenty of ways to have fun playing and learning at home too.
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Play at Home Ideas
We have a library of Take Home Cards that are offered at our play sessions, linking to that week’s theme.
Click on the images below to download and use with nursery rhymes, #FunFacts and easy #TakeHomeIdeas to have lots of fun playing at home.
In the Water
Up and Down
Night Animals
Wild Animal Safari
Teddy Bears
At the Seaside
We celebrate creative ways to make toys out of anything – whether it be out of your recycling box or household items! It’s not only great for the world to do this but also great for development and learning for children to explore items in this way.
Download our FREE Play At Home resource list here to start learning more about your child’s play style and ways to keep them engaged for longer.
Coming Soon
Our short Play At Home online course will help you to recognise the learning styles that your child uses and help match play opportunities to their individual preferences, increasing fun, curiosity and imagination without spending the earth!
Great Ideas and Websites
Local
Wolverhampton’s very own site
with a range of activities in school holidays for all ages
Wolverhampton Arts
family friendly arts and cultural activities
Wolverhampton Libraries
Online storytimes, rhymetimes and crafts. Look out for Booktime sessions at libraries around the city
Wolverhampton Raring2Go!
Lots of activities across the city and in the wider West Midlands
Wolverhampton Families Facebook Group
Run by a local parent with loads of signposting to great events, activities and resources
National
BBC’s Tiny Happy People
A whole wealth of great tips, ideas, videos and activities
CBeebie’s The Baby Club
Singing, stories, advice
NSPCC Look, Say, Sing, Play
Ideas and brain-building tips for little ones
Literacy Trust’s Small Talk
Good ideas to help chatting and reading with babies
Literacy Trust’s website for parents
Lists of nursery rhymes and songs with words
Early Education’s free resource sheets
Lots of information sheets to download
Foundation Years’ website
Various resources and information for caregivers
Fun, simple activities from gov.uk
Full of ideas in age categories
The World Around Us
The World Around Us, science themed play sessions for under 5s that were delivered with support from Millennium Point Trust in 2019-2020.
We created quick and easy ways to inspire curiosity, early problem-solving skills and most importantly, have fun!
We are a community organisation with a passion for play!
Wolves Play Cafe is here to support young children and their parents and caregivers in our hometown of Wolverhampton.
Fun and varied play
High quality play products
Experienced early years staff