Nursery World - Settling down

Give excited children a space and a focus for changing between nursery activities with a choice of techniques described by Jenny Mosley and Ross Grogan Q. Some of the children in our care can get quite overexcited and then find it difficult to settle to a quieter activity or group session. What techniques can we use to calm them down?

Q. Some of the children in our care can get quite overexcited and then find it difficult to settle to a quieter activity or group session. What techniques can we use to calm them down?

A. We're probably all familiar with this situation - children who become so engaged in boisterous activities that they find it difficult to make the transfer to quieter ones. Their brains and bodies are buzzing and they don't seem to know how calming down happens. Luckily, there are techniques you can use to speed up this process and show children how to do it for themselves.

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