Queensland Government
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
Play items that focus on cognitive development can assist children to develop and enhance their thinking, problem-solving, cause and effect, object recognition, memory and reasoning skills. Learning play elements can also help to develop social skills through interaction, sharing, learning, cooperation and mutual goal-setting.
  • Visual language tile about smell
  • Visual language tile about listening
  • Visual language tile about music
  • I Spy and I Hear panel
  • Learning through seeing and touching
  • Setting the cogs in motion
  • Cog panel

    On the cog panel, children can learn 'cause and effect' by turning the wheel, which sets cogs in motion and then triggers a waving hand.

  • Visual language tiles

    Visual language tiles are visual cues that teach children to link the picture with an object or actions.

  • I Spy and I Hear panels

    These are visual cues that teach children to link objects and colours in the surrounding playground and recreation area.

  • Touch tiles

    Children can also learn A-to-Z Braille and sign language through touch and visual cues located around the play area.