Nursery World - Tidying up: Clear the decks

<P> How do you encourage a tired child to join in at tidy-up time? Denise Bailey offers some practical tips </P>

How do you encourage a tired child to join in at tidy-up time? Denise Bailey offers some practical tips

'Time to tidy up' are words that can strike dread into the heart of even the most positive and experienced of early years practitioners. Every day and, for some of us, twice a day, that time arrives - and it arrives when everyone is tired and grumpy.

Most practitioners will recognise the following scenario: staff race around washing paint pots, tidying table-top activities, trying to find all the jigsaw pieces, sweeping up the sand, tracking down lumps of dough and returning home corner items scattered throughout the setting.

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