EYLF learning outcomes
The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) asks children to take increasing responsibility for their own physical learning (3.2), which includes the fine motor skills (and sometimes, gross motor skills) required to stack and nest objects.
Stacking and nesting games can be much more than playing with plastic cups! They can include a variety of objects that connect children with natural and processed materials (4.4), like wood, stone, paper, metal and textiles.
While manipulating and exploring objects, children develop learning dispositions such as confidence, commitment, imagination, enthusiasm and persistence (4.1), and skills like problem-solving, experimentation, investigating and hypothesising (4.2).
Children may transfer and adapt what they have learned as they stack and nest different objects (4.3).