Outdoor play
ideas
preschool play and learning activities.
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Sand tray socks
Put your preschool sand together with some socks & spoons
and enjoy free flow activities that explore fill, full and role play.
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Use household spoons to fill the socks with sand.
for inclusive practice to ensure all children have the oppportunity
to take part, use cookie cutters, plastic rings cut from a circular bottles
or parcel tape tubes to hold the sock top open.
This will help to fill the socks with greater ease and provides a
resource for solution / problem solving.
This activity supports planning for children's
schema schematic learning through enclosure, enveloping,
transporting, trajectory
Source socks in a variety
of colours and sizes.
Role play with them: use the
socks to build representational models, test weight, quantity, fill
and use connective materials eg. adhesive papers, pads, sticky tape to
join pieces together
Sticky stuff and sand doesn't always mix well, bits may drop off
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Blues
- butterflies, space men,
Greens
- caterpillars, frogs, dragons and dinosaurs
Red
- lady bugs
Browns
- bears, rabbits, dogs
Silvers
and grey - mice, space ships and dolphins.
White
- use crayons to draw and decorate the socks before filling, or paint,
dry and add to sand play when ready.
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Sand sock bag
The storage bag pattern on Stitch squirrel's page provides
a solution that houses all the sand pit socks in one place. It's a resource
that also helps to open conversation about how some socks can be for
sand play whilst others may be considered for feet - protect children's
right to information and support and promote a setting's safeguarding
endeavours by letting parent's know how socks have been used in play.
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Sock outline image and sand sock storage bag label
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Theme everyones
play for seasonal events ..
Yule sock selection or stripy
with toes from amazon
stripy horse books by Jim Helmore
and Karen Wall
For creative sewing projects that turn socks into cute
characters
Brenna Maloney's book, socks appeal
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