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Early Childhood Play Material Guidelines

This document contains a rating scale from 1 to 7 assessing the adequacy of various materials and activities in early childhood education across several categories. These categories include art, blocks, sand/water, dramatic play, and nature/science. For each category, there are several criteria rated on the 1 to 7 scale to evaluate things like access to materials, time allotted, organization, and enrichment activities.

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Early Childhood Play Material Guidelines

This document contains a rating scale from 1 to 7 assessing the adequacy of various materials and activities in early childhood education across several categories. These categories include art, blocks, sand/water, dramatic play, and nature/science. For each category, there are several criteria rated on the 1 to 7 scale to evaluate things like access to materials, time allotted, organization, and enrichment activities.

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Inadequate Minimal Good Excellent

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

4.2 Art
4.2.1 Children have access to art material. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.2.2
The time offered for art material is at least one
hour.
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4.3 Blocks
4.3.1
Enough blocks and accessories are available for
daily use.
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4.3.2 Clear floor space is available for blocks play. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.3.3
Enough blocks and accessories are available for
three or more children to build at the same time.
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4.3.4 Blocks are organized according to type. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.4 Sand/Water
4.4.1
Adequate time and place is available to play with
sand and water.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.4.2 Sand/water toys are accessible. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.4.3
Different activities are done with sand and water
(for example, bubbles added to water).
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4.4.4
Sand or water play available to children for at
least one hour daily.
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4.5. Dramatic Play
4.5.1
Dramatic play material and furniture are
accessible to children (for example, dress up
clothes, housekeeping props, dolls, etc.)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.5.2 Children are encouraged for dramatic play. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.5.3
Dramatic play materials are available to children
for at least one hour daily.
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4.5.4 Separate storage for dramatic play material. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.5.5
Pictures, stories, and trips are used to enrich
dramatic play.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.6 Nature/Science
4.6.1
Developmentally appropriate games, materials
and activities from nature/science categories are
accessible.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.6.2
Children are encouraged to bring in natural things
to share with others or add to collections (for
example, bring fall leaves in from playground).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4.6.3
Nature/science material are well organized and in
good condition (for example, collection stored in
separate container).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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