Nursery World - EYFS Activities - Outdoor resource box… car wash

Providing the chance to work at a ‘car wash’. By Lyndsey Gardner

THEME

Our car wash box was created following the success of another of our outdoor boxes – ‘the garage’. As well as enabling children to engage in purposeful play using the much-loved bicycles and tricycles in our nursery school, the box opened up opportunities for cross-curricular learning focusing on teamwork, communication and physical development.

CHOICE

We provided the children with a varied assortment of resources including sponges, buckets, cloths and sprays. We made use of the garden tap and supplied plenty of washing-up liquid to ensure the car wash was in full operation!

We provided chalks and numbers to enable the children to create parking bays and engage in meaningful mark-making. And to develop the children’s knowledge of number and mathematical concepts, we supplied notepads, receipt books and Post-it notes, as well as a cash register.
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