Things to do with wrapping paper
What you can do
 Make a card
 Make a pass the parcel
 Wrap up toys and play ‘guess the
toy’
 Make a snowflake
 Make a mosaic
 Colour on it
 Scrunch it
 Paint it
 Cut it
 Make a picture
Make believe: Have a pretend party for
toys and talk about what the toys would
like, prefer, wish for, want, dislike. Think
about what would be the best kind of
present for each toy and why. Chat about
what to do if they don’t like a present
Language for thinking: Talk about guessing
what is in the present; use words such as ,
‘know, think, guess, hope, recognise, wonder’
What you can talk about
What you are doing: scrunching,
cutting, sticking, drawing, painting,
building, making, folding.
Describing what you see: big, small, tall,
wide, round, square, red, blue, yellow, bright,
colourful, dark; patterns, stripes, circles,
swirls, curls, twists, zig zags, dots,
What shapes have they made: circle,
square, triangle, rectangle, oval
Comment on your child’s play: ‘You are
sticking’, ‘You are drawing’, ‘You want the
red crayon’, ‘You are scrunching the paper’