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Enabling Environments: Making Spaces ... Cosy places

Children often want their own small corners where they feel safe and secure. How best can settings cater for this need?

Our setting is a big airy room with high ceilings. We've partitioned the space up into 'areas' but how do we create 'cosy' spaces that work for the children and encourage communication?

Most of us have childhood memories of a cosy place in which to hide ourselves away. Perhaps it was under the kitchen table, behind the settee, or outside in a den. It might have been somewhere we shared with others, or went to on our own with a book or a favourite teddy. There seems to be a need within all of us, from an early age to find a space that 'fits' us.

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