Playful Learners: Product Review: TTS Time to Talk Number Rhymes Basket

If you were to walk into our setting at any time of day you would be sure to hear at least one of the boys singing a nursery rhyme whether it be a show for one of the adults or just while playing happily. Spotting these little spontaneous moments is some thing that really warms my heart.

We have recently been playing with the Time to Talk Number Rhymes Basket from TTS. It has been a great addition to our quiet area and the children have loved exploring the basket by them selves and with an adult during our circle time.

Set includes:

a shoe
a fish
a speckled frog
a currant bun
a green bottle
a monkey
a sausage
a spaceship
a duck
a bed

The beautiful set are made from a set which are safe for children from birth and can all be put into the washing machine if needed. When I first introduced the set to the children we used them to help us select songs for circle time if the children had trouble thinking of one. This worked great in fact they all wanted to choose from the basket. With the boys all learning their numbers at the moment the basket was great for singing number songs and it has help a lot.

The picture below was taken from a spontaneous child led activity we spotted through out the day. D would line up the ducks acting out the '5 Little Ducks' song and bringing them back together to start again.

The children enjoyed using the props to carry out the songs and passed them along the circle giving every one ago. This meant that children who were less able to join in with singing the words still had the opportunity to join in through the actions instead.

You could keep this basket away in the cupboard for special occasions, this is what we originally thought but they have remained in a cosy area and we often discover the children starting their own group sing along or the different objects being taken out for a cuddle or as a story prompt.