Hula Hoop Advice

[Momof4]

I've heard of this before to keep children apart but I think it would have to be very extreme circumstances with some bad behaviour for me to ever ask them to do this. I want all the children to learn to play together, share, take turns, have good socialization skills, so I don't understand the reasoning behind separating them into circles. I'll be interested to see the reasoning behind this theory.

[Dreamalittledream]

I've heard of this before to keep children apart but I think it would have to be very extreme circumstances with some bad behaviour for me to ever ask them to do this. I want all the children to learn to play together, share, take turns, have good socialization skills, so I don't understand the reasoning behind separating them into circles. I'll be interested to see the reasoning behind this theory.

Guess I'm the odd man out here..? Huge fan of the hoop thing. Use it daily. I have about 12 bins of play sets sorted together on a single shelf unit (with the hoops) by theme (examples: Mr Potato Head sets, kinex, farm set with animals, block sets, dinosaur kit, medical themed...etc.) small/numerous pieces with most. I have a full array of other toys placed in other locations all around the daycare that each have full access to and must share, socialize with (they only use the hoops with the 12 bins). They simply grab a hoop, sit down, play, put all the little pieces back in the bin & bin & hoop back when they're done. I love that the babies learn very quickly not to surpass the hoop, frustration is zero (from the big ones) and that the pieces get all put back together.