Gardening with children can help to encourage a connection with the senses and a love of nature while also providing…
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Designing Outdoor Play Spaces – Part 1 Assess & Reflect
I’ve noticed a gradual return to more natural outdoor play spaces for children across the past few years which is…
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20 Ideas to Encourage Outdoor Rainy Day Play
Outdoor rainy day play provides many learning opportunities for children. Just because it’s raining or a little cold outdoors doesn’t…
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Taking Dramatic Play Outside – Ideas to get you started!
The outdoor learning environment offers a wonderful stage to inspire little imaginations through dramatic play outside. By adding a few simple props from either indoors…
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Reusing Tyres in Outdoor Play Spaces
Repurposing and reusing tyres in outdoor play spaces is not only fantastic for limited educator and parent budgets but also…
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Using Open Ended Materials in Outdoor Play.
Providing open ended play materials allows children the opportunity to be curious, creative and direct their own play. There are…
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Make a Recycled Plant Pot Scarecrow
As both a parent and educator I love finding ways to plan and create children’s recycling projects and our plant…
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Community Inspiration – Outdoor Play Environments
Planning and creating engaging outdoor play areas for children is one of my favourite things to do – another is…
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Make your own Birdbath!
We enjoy creating an environment that attracts birds and other wildlife to our garden and when the children told me…
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Make your own Sensory Small World
I enjoy creating opportunities for small world play – especially outside where I try to incorporate them into the natural…
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Sensory Play with Glove Painting
I love the benefits of providing messy sensory play opportunities for children in the early years! This simple activity was…
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Sustainability in the Garden – How to Make a Worm Tower!
I’ve recently been exploring worm towers as a different way to involve the children in composting organic matter and also learning…
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