What’s the deal with all the Tuff Trays?

[Marmite27]

They seem to be the latest ‘insta’ must have, popping up all over and go along with all the wanky Grimm’s wooden shite.

What’s wrong with a bit of plastic? (Which of course these trays are made out of, but they gloss over that part )

Wanky - YANBU
Not Wanky - YABU

Ha Ha!

It's a builder's Spot Board for mixing mortar on!

Look up curiosity approach. Tuff spot trays are a way to set up an activity in nursery for multiple children to access. It doesn't matter what you put in it. We have done bear hunt, duplo, insect investigation, planting and plants, colour mixing with paint, weighing and measuring with rice and pasta, water play etc. Wooden vs plastic is a totally different subject in my opinion.

@runrabbitrunrunrun

Yabu and sound jealous

really! We do have quite a bit of Grimms (wankery) that people have given as presents including a rainbow which cost a ridiculous amount of money, a wankle (which I’ve kept for comedy value) elements (including another fucking rainbow!) and some grapat ninnies (I think). So very not jealous.

The kids like to stand on the rainbow, throw the ninnies at each other like missiles and parts of the wankle are used as weapons (bit of wood on a stick anyone?)

My kids are very much into imaginative play, one has a plant pot full of gravel ‘children’ and the other likes giant cardboard boxes to make ‘flats’. It has to be said though, they like making potions, baking and painting better.

Oh and I forgot the wooden animals a god parent brings every time he visits. We’re into double figures now, and they just ignore them for orchard games and jigsaws (and Bing and the Octonaughts).

Oh my days I am having a flashback to wnaky baskets too. And parachute games.

Those ones they call ‘heuristic’ - just looks like a load of old crap shoved in a basket?

We’ve had ours over 10 years so they aren’t new. My kids are 13 and 10 now and it still gets used regularly

I’m confused as to ‘what’s wrong with a bit of plastic’ they are that? What is a ‘bit of plastic’ like people have random pieces of plastic hanging around? Tuff trays are amazing because they’re big, durable and cheap. They are great even for things like playdoh, Lego, dinosaurs and slime, decorating cakes, anything goes. It’s just a big surface that stops mess? How can they be wanky?!

(Grimes stuff is wanky and overpriced. But a tuff tray can’t be wanky when they’re £15 from screwfix)

@Amanduh - fair point

It's a builder's Spot Board for mixing mortar on!

EYFS teachers know this @PigletJohn. We were buying them from builders merchants for years before companies started making them for nurseries and charging twice as much.
Lots of resources in Early Years is regular stuff repurposed.