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Mischief Mouse's collection of craft activities for preschool and early years.
Printable resources to help support play - colouring, mark making, labelling, promoting, engaging and extending..
Magical Mammoth's recipes to play with and recipes to eat ..
Stitch Squirrel provides a little tree space for some needle and thread projects  - handmade resources to support learning and development.
Activities for math - Calculator caterpillar's activity ideas to support children's numeracy, reasoning and problem solving play.
Hope Hedgehog invites visitors to take a look through some articles of interest ...
Navigator Narwhal's outdoor - in activity ideas for preschool and early years play.



Activity ideas for children's outdoor play

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utdoor activities for children's play
 
This collection of ideas involves messy creative, constructive and hopefully fun suggestions for children to enjoy their outdoor play spaces. Dig sand, pour water, crack ice, sprinkle sawdust, paint and breath the fresh air, soaking up the sense of freedom that being outside provides!

  Focus activity planning sheet 

The project approach & sustained shared thinking - practical preschool

Outside fun and games
Log locks!

Log locks outdoor play activity

Weaving orbs  
Spaceship rocket shuttles- lunar landings

Weaving strips of fabric, grass, twigs and ribbon through the bars of hanging baskets
Aluminium foil plantpot space rockets - outdoor play
10 green bottles outdoor bowling activity
Sun safety rhyme & water floats

10 green bottles - outdoor skittles
Staying safe in the sun - ways for children to protect themselves
Hopscotch mark making outdoor chalk game
 Message in a bottle  mark making activities

Handmade chalk and hopscotch design markings
Send someone a message, lock it in a bottle then open to read ..
Twig, stick painting
Duck races

Stick and twig painting
Junk modeling and duck racing activity








Sand tray sock activity  fill and design
Firework splatts November 5th activity
Conker horse chestnut activities
Making an outdoor plan

  Fill socks with sand ...
  Firework splatts! messy paint activity
Conker activity ideas
Make a plan of the outside play space
A bucket of water balloons
Dinosaur ice age


A bucket of water balloons ready to roll ..
Dinosaur ice age





grass grass
Other ideas
Bug and treasure searches 
Wallpaper brushes & pots of water - waterwall google image search
Outdoor trellis - weaving frames on google images 
Kitchen cook ups - mud kitchens google image search

Links to more outdoor resources

Playdough page this tactile stuff loves going outside!!

Parent partnership ideas - build positive relationships with your setting's parents

The Eden Project's outdoor play ideas






grass grass

Easby abbey 2006 Richmond North yorkshire - the drummer boy walk

Easby abbey ruins - Richmond, North Yorkshire ..