Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Collections

Using light and dark as a medium for discovery and learning is well established in settings. Nicole Weinstein suggests resources that will maximise opportunities to explore and investigate.

Experiences involving light and dark enable children to appreciate the awe and wonder of the world around them and provide a rich learning environment in which they can develop their natural curiosity. Playing with light and shadow introduces them to our need for light in order to see things and provides a platform for children to express their fears and appreciate those of others.

Early years settings can create special dark places by building dens or covering windows so that children can explore light with resources like torches, glow sticks, fibre optic lights or light boxes.

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Light resources are essential for early years settings as they create the right learning environment for exploration and investigation. They develop children's creativity and critical thinking and support active learning.

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