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Nursery World Awards 2008: Resources - Physical Development

WINNER: City Beads, NES Arnold

This new piece of equipment is already award-winning and it provides abrilliant way to help young children build up their basic physicaldevelopment. Children learn about movement and improve their motorskills by playing with the city beads.

It is colourful, vibrant and instead of simply beads, children threadand play with a car, a tube train, a helicopter and an aeroplane. Thisholds their attention much longer than normal beads and acts as anintroduction to transport and travel. It even has a raised tiltedplatform to allow easy access for younger children.

One childcare worker said, 'This is a great product as it will keep alldifferent age levels engaged. An exceptional way to make the traditionalbead activity frame a bit more exciting, by having little transportbeads instead. We used it with a different age group each week as theyall enjoyed playing with it so much.'

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