After the response to last week’s post about the early years hairdressing salon; this week I am sharing another of my role play ideas, that I set up for the children when I was working as a registered child minder.

As with the hairdressing salon, I supplied a telephone, pen and paper for the children to ‘book appointments’.

I already had a few old pairs of spectacles( with the lens removed) in my dressing up box, which the children loved to try on.

A friend of mine who worked in a pre-school had been given some old glasses frames from a high strret optician) so it might be worth asking in your town.

One of the children in my care wore glasses so I encouraged him to talk about his experience and the other children asked him their own questions , which he proudly answered!

We talked about how he had eye drops put into his eyes before having them looked at with a special light.

Another child, who had an older sibling wanted to tell us all about the sight test she had undergone at school.

I let the children take it in turns to look in a mirror to see what colour their eyes were and they looked at one another’s eyes. I observed some great language from this.

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I also made up an eye test by printing off some letters on the computer:The children enjoyed taking turns in reading the letters and covering up alternative eyes.

I would like to thank Amy Costello for kindly letting me use her photos in this post.

Please share your own experiences and ideas with me.

As always questions and comments are welcome.

Until next time.

Karen

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