01 Oct 2025
Essential resources: take a humble spoon...
This Nursery World article celebrates the everyday spoon as a powerful learning tool in early years education.
It highlights how spoons can support children’s development through sensory exploration, imaginative play and hands-on learning.
From mixing, scooping and pouring to role play and music-making, spoons can encourage fine motor skills, coordination, creativity, discovery and problem-solving across all areas of learning.
