Liam's developmental record is ready. Start by tracking a few skills or logging an observation, and the growth picture will build here over time.
How to grow these skills — activities for this child
A balanced starter set across all six domains for this age — begin here, then assess. Every activity uses low-cost materials and shows how to make it easier or harder.
Handwashing Song Routine
Social & Emotional
Grows: Self-care hygiene, following a familiar sequence and building a health habit
You need: A jug of water, a basin, a bar of soap, a drying cloth. Very low cost.
How to do it ↓
Set a fixed handwashing time before meals and after the toilet.
Sing a short home-language washing song that lasts about 20 seconds.
Guide the steps: wet, soap, rub palms-backs-between fingers, rinse, dry.
Praise each child by name as they finish.
Watch for: Child moves toward the basin at the right times, rubs both hands, and needs less physical help each week.
Make it easier
Do hand-over-hand and let the child copy just one step (rubbing palms) while you do the rest.
Extend it
Let the child lead a small group and 'check' that friends washed between their fingers.
Family Faces Cloth Book
Identity & Belonging
Grows: Recognising familiar people and feeling secure and connected
You need: Photos (or child's own scribbles of family), clear plastic sleeves or stitched cloth. Low cost.
How to do it ↓
Ask each family for a photo or let the child mark a page for each person.
Slide them into plastic sleeves or stitch a soft cloth book.
Look through it one-to-one, naming each person.
Keep it where the child can fetch it when missing home.
Watch for: Child fetches the book, points to and names family, and settles when looking at it.
Make it easier
Use just one or two faces the child knows best.
Extend it
Ask the child to tell you something each person does at home.
Naming Walk
Communication
Grows: Receptive vocabulary - understanding many words before saying them
You need: The yard, the room, anything around you. Free.
How to do it ↓
Carry or walk slowly with the child around the centre or yard.
Point to and name real things: tree, dog, water, ball.
Let the child touch what you name.
Repeat the same words often across the day.
Watch for: Child looks at or points to the named object and starts saying some words.
Make it easier
Name just a few favourite things over and over.
Extend it
Ask 'Where is the...?' and add describing words (big tree, wet grass).
Tin & Seed Shakers
Creativity
Grows: Rhythm, cause-and-effect and early musical expression
You need: Clean tins/bottles with a few dry seeds or stones, sealed tightly. Free.
How to do it ↓
Seal dry seeds or small stones inside tins and bottles.
Shake to make sound and let the child copy.
Shake fast, slow, loud, soft.
Shake along to a song.
Watch for: Child shakes on purpose, copies rhythms and changes fast/slow.
Make it easier
Use one easy-to-hold shaker and shake together.
Extend it
Keep a steady beat to a song, or make patterns of loud and soft.
Texture Discovery Tray
Physical
Grows: Sensory exploration and early scientific thinking about the world
You need: A tray with sand, water, grass, smooth and rough stones, leaves. Free.
How to do it ↓
Put different natural textures in a tray or on a mat.
Let the child touch, squeeze and explore each one.
Name the textures: soft, rough, wet, cold.
Watch what they do with each material.
Watch for: Child explores each texture differently and reacts to wet/dry, rough/smooth.
Make it easier
Offer one texture at a time (just water, then just sand).
Extend it
Ask them to find something rough / soft, or sort by texture.
Bottle-Top Posting Box
Thinking & Reasoning
Grows: Shape and hole matching, hand-eye coordination and 'one at a time'
You need: A box or tin with a slot cut in the lid, bottle tops. Free.
How to do it ↓
Cut a slot in a box lid just big enough for a bottle top.
Show posting one top at a time through the slot.
Count each one as it goes in.
Open the box and start again.
Watch for: Child posts tops one by one and starts to join in the counting.
Make it easier
Make the slot bigger and hand the tops over one at a time.
Extend it
Cut different shaped holes to match different objects, or count how many fit.
Development across the six domains
Social & Emotional
0%
0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 7 not yet assessed
Track 7 skills ↓
Is learning to respect themselves and others and uses the good manners of the family culture ELDA1 Aim5
Shares ideas and experiences at circle/ring time and takes part in group routines ELDA2 Aim3
Begins to show self-control and adapt behaviour to different routines ELDA2 Aim3
Manages transitions when prepared and alerted to the change ELDA2 Aim3
Seeks help from adults and begins to talk about what bothers or frightens them ELDA1 Aim5
Shows growing independence while staying near a trusted adult ELDA2 Aim1
Begins to take turns with support ELDA2 Aim3
Identity & Belonging
0%
0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 6 not yet assessed
Track 6 skills ↓
Points to and names parts of the body and knows their own name ELDA2 Aim1
Notices what they are able to do and shows pride in their efforts and achievements ELDA2 Aim1
Tries to dress/undress and manage self-care with support ELDA2 Aim2
Sees themselves as part of a family or cultural group and shows affection for others ELDA2 Aim4
Meets and shows interest in children of different ages and cultural backgrounds ELDA2 Aim4
Spends longer periods engaged in a chosen activity ELDA2 Aim1
Communication
0%
0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 7 not yet assessed
Track 7 skills ↓
Speaks in short sentences and can be understood by familiar adults ELDA3 Aim2
Loves listening to stories and songs and plays games with sounds ELDA3 Aim1
Can follow verbal instructions and answers simple questions ELDA3 Aim1
Starts to recognise that reading begins at the top of the page and goes left to right ELDA3 Aim3
Says what they think is happening in the pictures ELDA3 Aim3
Draws people and objects and names them ELDA3 Aim4
Acts out experiences in make-believe play ELDA3 Aim4
Creativity
0%
0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 6 not yet assessed
Track 6 skills ↓
Plays more complex make-believe games for longer times, often about home life ELDA5 Aim2
Enjoys creating structures and objects with available materials ELDA5 Aim2
Draws recognisable circles, lines and human-face shapes ELDA5 Aim3
Starts to cut and paste with round-ended scissors and glue ELDA5 Aim3
Moves and dances to music and rhythm ELDA5 Aim4
Sings simple songs and says rhymes ELDA5 Aim4
Physical
0%
0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 8 not yet assessed
Track 8 skills ↓
Runs, jumps with two feet together and stands and walks on tiptoe ELDA1 Aim4
Climbs, balances, kicks and throws a ball ELDA1 Aim4
Uses small muscles to cut with scissors, thread large beads or build with blocks ELDA1 Aim4
Imitates washing face and hands and cleaning teeth and asks for their nose to be wiped ELDA1 Aim2
Wants to participate in dressing and bath routines and tries to do things on their own ELDA2 Aim2
Recognises the difference between nutritious and 'junk' food and helps serve food ELDA1 Aim1
Listens to warnings of danger while wanting to explore everything around them ELDA1 Aim3
Moves and dances to music using the whole body ELDA1 Aim4
Thinking & Reasoning
0%
0 achieved · 0 emerging · 0 need support · 7 not yet assessed
Track 7 skills ↓
Sorts and groups everyday objects such as shoes, toys and items of clothing ELDA4 Aim1
Uses number language and joins in counting rhymes and songs ELDA4 Aim1
Tries to solve simple problems and talks about what they are doing ELDA4 Aim2
Categorises objects according to properties such as size or shape ELDA4 Aim3
Focuses on how to do something and enjoys repetition ELDA6 Aim1
Understands experience-based time words (now, later, before) ELDA6 Aim3
Investigates how things work by pushing, pulling and stacking objects ELDA6 Aim2
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