Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Outdoors

Children can go to the beach every day at a nursery with its own idea of free flow. Gemma Taylor reports.

Life's a beach at Sleaford Day Nursery, Lincolnshire, now that its new themed play area has opened.

Children have free-flow access to a natural wonderland where they can hide, sit in the shade around the trees, build dens, play musical bamboo bars, plant flowers or dig in the mud pit.

A grant from Charity Children's Links provided the £13,000 needed to build this stimulating environment for children's play. Every activity in the area is designed to spark children's imagination and to encourage exploration and investigation.

Owner Rebecca Fraser says, 'Through a long process of research and feedback from children and parents, we decided the main focus would be on using recycled materials and natural resources.

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