Nursery World - EYFS Activities - Outdoor Resource Box… Construction

A builder’s outdoor resource box enhanced the children’s play and learning, reports Lyndsey Gardner

THEME

Nursery staff had noticed the boys’ interest in ‘diggers’ and mixing sand and water. How to extend this interest became obvious when two boys, wearing hard hats, began digging in the sand, telling staff, ‘We’re the workies [workmen].’

CHOICE

The children wanted to include hard hats and a range of construction vehicles in the box. Staff then added a selection of other resources to extend children’s learning (see box).

OBSERVATIONS

The children, especially the boys, responded positively to the box. Nursery staff observed that:

children who would normally run around and flit from one area to another engaged with the resources and spent long periods focused on their play

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