Sensitive educators will respond to current interests and enthusiasms brought into the setting by the children, as well as planning to offer a range of small worlds based on themes that they feel are important.
There needs to be a balance of small worlds created by practitioners and those created by the children. Educators who lovingly create beautiful miniature environments are sometimes ill-disposed towards children playing with them, fearing that they will be spoilt!
Encouraging children to build the small worlds independently or alongside a practitioner neatly avoids this problem, and offers ownership of the small world to the children themselves.
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