Over the past few weeks you may have noticed a slow transformation of out outdoor learning environment. We have been working hard to develop our very own ‘sand (at the moment) kitchen’ alongside your children. We thought hard as to what skills we were hoping the children would practice whilst playing here and carefully selected equipment that would foster these skills and provide some challenge!
So far this week we have observed children, pouring, splashing, mixing, combining, brewing, sieving, counting, measuring, filtering, ladling, sprinkling, sweeping and mashing…with plenty of laughing, role playing and negotiating. ‘’No, I do not like your sand pie! Please take it back to the kitchen it needs less salt.’’
Children have been using their imaginations to feed their play. They had to improvise as more children entered ‘their’ kitchen to join in with their dialogue and ‘taste’ their curious concoctions.
Adding water to the sand made for interesting discussions about change and texture. Sweeping wet sand is certainly more of an upper body work out for the children than dry. Cleaning wet sand out of utensils and pans requires a little bit more creative thinking. Just tipping doesn’t work! New skills such as scraping and rinsing were observed today.
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