{"id":136,"date":"2022-05-05T17:43:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxfordhealth.local\/hvs\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:23:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:23:03","slug":"play-development","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/3-4\/play-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Play and development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Children&#8217;s development<\/h2>\n<p>Solihull Approach Parenting: <a href=\"https:\/\/solihullapproachparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Developmental-and-Emotional-Milestones.pdf\">Developmental and emotional milestones<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Screen time in Under 5&#8217;s<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beststartinlife.gov.uk\/screen-time-under-5s\/\">https:\/\/beststartinlife.gov.uk\/screen-time-under-5s\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com\/s\/xPCQCx6XETwRZ3GC8flUymgRJ?domain=oxfordshire-healthiertogether.nhs.uk\">Screen time &#8211; a helpful guide :: Oxfordshire Healthier Together<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Is your child ready for school? Find further information here:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/3-4\/help-advice\/\">General help and advice &#8211; Health Visiting ServiceHealth Visiting Service (oxfordhealth.nhs.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Play<\/h2>\n<p>Here is a good leaflet on play from <a href=\"https:\/\/solihullapproachparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Lets-Play.pdf\">Solihull Approach Parenting<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Activities for toddlers<\/h2>\n<p>Activities for toddlers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/start4life\/toddler\/activities\/\">Activities | Toddler | Start for Life (www.nhs.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>50 things to do before you&#8217;re five:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordshire.50thingstodo.org\/app\/os#!\/welcome\">50 Things to Do Before You&#8217;re Five in Oxfordshire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"50 things app:  (\u00a9)Community Dental Services CIC, 2022\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tskgyhLZDDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5 activities for toddler development | 2-3 years | BBC Tiny Happy People\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jr6Wjyfmrzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The BBC have produced some activity ideas for toddlers aged 3-4 year olds at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/tiny-happy-people\/3-to-4-year-old-child-development-activities\">Activities for 3-4 year olds &#8211; BBC Tiny Happy People<\/a><\/p>\n<p>as have the Government here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hungrylittleminds.campaign.gov.uk\/?mc_cid=61d2309c31&amp;mc_eid=4722a98201\">Hungry Little Minds \u2013 Simple fun, activities for kids aged 0 \u2013 5 (campaign.gov.uk)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Memory game - Words for Life, Better Health Start for Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tNGcVdQ3IZc?list=PLmmlG7jutI-2PmvGAwarX6aioxf3LLmZN\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children&#8217;s development Solihull Approach Parenting: Developmental and emotional milestones Screen time in Under 5&#8217;s https:\/\/beststartinlife.gov.uk\/screen-time-under-5s\/ Screen time &#8211; a helpful&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1096,"parent":13,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/2644"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordhealth.nhs.uk\/hv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}