Anticipation of a real event gave the opportunity for the young children at Busy Bees nursery in Durham City to play and learn via a pretend nuptials.

I am the lead for learning in the Bumbles room for threeto five-year-olds at Busy Bees Nursery in Durham. The children have been very interested in my wedding plans and began to use the 'clothes shop' to dress up and pretend to go to a wedding. So we decided to build on this interest by planning experiences and activities with a wedding theme.

We started by discussing as a team how best to ensure that all the children were included in the plan. The questions we raised were:

We then listed what we wanted to achieve through the activities, and realised that they presented a good opportunity to involve the children's parents, their grandparents and members of the community.

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