Disclaimer

This is not professional advice

Bright Play Days publishes play and learning ideas. Nothing here is medical, developmental, psychological, educational, or legal advice, and nothing here is a diagnosis.

If you have a concern about your child's health, development, or behaviour, please speak to a qualified professional — your GP, health visitor, paediatrician, or your child's teacher.

Supervision and safety

Every activity assumes an adult is present and using their judgement. Consider the children involved, the materials, and the space before you start. Small parts, water, heat, scissors, food and outdoor play all need appropriate supervision.

Allergies and sensitivities

Activities involving food, paint, soap, plants or scented materials may not be suitable for every child. Check the ingredients on anything you use.

Ages are guidance

Age ranges describe the children an activity usually suits. They are not a safety rating, and they are not a milestone. Children develop at their own pace across a very wide normal range, and an activity being labelled for four-year- olds says nothing about what your four-year-old should be able to do.

Choking, water and small parts

Many activities on this site use small objects — pasta, beads, buttons, pom-poms, dried rice, marbles, googly eyes. All of these are a choking hazard for young children, particularly under threes and anyone who still puts things in their mouth.

Water play of any depth, including a washing-up bowl, needs an adult within arm's reach the entire time.

We flag these on individual activities, but please apply your own judgement first. You know your child; we do not.

Food used in play

Some activities use food — flour, rice, pasta, oats — as a play material. If food is scarce in your household, or if using food as a toy does not sit right with you, skip those and use the alternatives noted on each one.

Anything that has been played with should not then be eaten.

Advertising and products

Adverts on this site are supplied by third parties and are not chosen or checked by us. An advert appearing here is not a recommendation.

Where we recommend a product ourselves, we say why, and we say when a link earns us a commission — see the affiliate disclosure and how we choose products. We do not accept payment to recommend something, and we do not claim to have tested products we have not tested.

Accuracy

We work to keep everything correct and current, but we cannot guarantee it. If you find something wrong, please tell us through the contact form and we will fix it.

No liability

To the extent the law allows, Bright Play Days accepts no liability for any loss, injury or damage arising from the use of anything on this site. Nothing here limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be limited.