# 02 · The choice museum

**Draft:** Local Queensland early childhood educator review pending.

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**About 10–15 minutes.** **Planning link:** QKLG 2024 Identity; EYLF V2.0
Outcome 1. The child chooses and explains, but can also keep a choice private.
[Framework sources](../SOURCE_NOTES.md).

**Gather:** A tea towel or sheet of paper and three safe, large everyday
objects such as a spoon, toy block and sock. No precious items are needed.

**Invite:** “Let's make a tiny museum. What should be in it?” Lay out the
objects and let the child add, remove, rearrange or replace them. The child
can be the curator, a visitor, a guide or an observer. Change the museum's
name if they want.

**Say:** “Which one will go first?” “What would you like visitors to notice?”
“Do we need a sign, or can you show me another way?” If the child says “I
don't know,” offer two objects and wait. They can change their mind.

**Notice, without scoring:** What caught their interest? How did they show a
preference, make a decision or revisit it? A gesture, pause or moving an item
counts as communication; there is no right collection.

**Change the route:** Try a museum of textures, shapes, things that roll or
things from a favourite pretend world. A child may choose with eye gaze,
pointing, AAC or an adult moving objects at their direction. Invite names in
home languages; accept a made-up label. Offer a quieter one-object display if
the table feels busy. For a tactile route, let the child handle each object
before deciding where it goes.

**Screen:** None needed. Optional: photograph the arrangement to compare
with a later version on the same device, with family permission and no upload.