Welcome to The Play Kits for 4-year-olds
Have you heard age 4 referred to as “The Lost Year”?
For some parents, it may feel like an in-between phase – but the idea of it being “lost” couldn’t be further from the truth. This year is full of important growth and learning.
This is a key time to develop a set of skills called executive function. These are strong indicators of future academic success – and your child will rely on them for life. They help us stay focused, work through frustration, plan and organise, and manage emotions.
Your child has the potential for these skills, but they don’t just develop on their own. Executive function needs to be taught, practised, and revisited. Every one of The Play Kits for 4-year-olds includes tools and playthings to support flexible thinking, critical thinking, tolerance for frustration, and the ability to plan ahead.
Note: Available in English only
The Connector Play Kit
Months 49, 50, 51
Encourage flexible thinking with playthings that help your child see things differently, make new connections, investigate, solve problems, and adapt to change.
- Develop flexible thinking
- Investigate objects from different perspectives
- Build independence and routines
- Strengthen precise fine motor skills
- Create, adapt, and act out new stories
The Examiner Play Kit
Months 52, 53, 54
Support critical thinking by guiding your child to explore abstract ideas, like time or emotions, and gather the information they need to make thoughtful, logical choices.
- Practise critical thinking
- Develop phonological awareness
- Visually build and deconstruct numbers
- Understand elapsed time
- Nurture empathy
The Persister Play Kit
Months 55, 56, 57
This Play Kit helps your child build frustration tolerance, using tools and games that encourage them to try again when something feels hard – and keep going.
- Practise managing frustration
- Develop visual spatial processing skills
- Build precise fine motor skills
- Identify letter forms and letters to sounds
- Learn mindful breathing exercises
The Planner Play Kit
Months 58, 59, 60
‘Thinking ahead’ is a skill your nearly 5-year-old is ready to explore. This Play Kit helps them experiment, make predictions, and connect actions to outcomes.
- Practise thinking ahead
- Understand the concept of time
- Reach a goal using logical reasoning
- Predict and hypothesise
- Learn to quickly identify number patterns
FAQs
£120 per Play Kit.
Every 3 months.
At the moment, Book Bundles are available up to 48 months through The Analyst Play Kit – with plans to expand.
Yes – as a current subscriber, your Play Kits will continue without any gaps.
It’s easy to reactivate your subscription: log in, go to ‘Account Settings’, and click ‘Reactivate’ under ‘Manage Subscriptions’. You can choose pay-per-Kit or save up to 10% by prepaying for a year. If you need help logging in or reactivating, please contact us.
Keep reading
4-year-old
Welcome to The Planner Play Kit for 4-year olds
The Planner Play Kit taps into your child’s growing awareness and offers ways to practice thinking ahead. Through play, your child learns to map out a sequence of steps to reach their goal.
4-year-old
Welcome to The Connector Play Kit for 4-year olds
The Connector Play Kit focuses on flexible thinking, an executive function skill that allows your child to investigate, solve problems, and adapt to change. Everything within this Kit is designed to provide fun ways for your child to practice this crucial skill.
4-year-old
Welcome to The Examiner Play Kit for 4-year olds
The playthings in The Examiner Play Kit are designed to facilitate critical thinking by making abstract concepts more concrete. Through games and useful tools, harder-to-grasp ideas like empathy, time, and math are broken down in ways that make these tough concepts fun to learn.