Young children love to mimic their home life at the nursery. Many will gravitate to the home corner where they can prepare family meals, look after baby dolls, vacuum or write the weekly shopping list. Others will enjoy acting out scenarios on a smaller scale, pretending to be mummy or daddy as they play with figures in a doll's house. But some children will use these resources to support other forms of play, transforming the doll's house into a dinosaur cave or the home corner into Superman's house. Either way, it is vital to allow children to transport resources freely around the nursery so that they can make their own decisions about their play.
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