Nursery World - EYFS Activities - Outdoor resource box… washing day

How to resource for this outdoor role-play activity. By Lyndsey Gardner

THEME

We decided to create a ‘washing day’ outdoor resource box after noticing that a number of children kept on taking home-area role-play resources outdoors. One child in particular was observed attempting to repeatedly peg doll’s clothes onto a washing line made from string and fabric, and so a washing day outdoor resource box was a natural next step for staff to develop for children to link their indoor play with the outdoors.

CHOICE

So that children could play imaginatively and independently, we provided them with a varied assortment of resources including aprons, pegs, washing lines, string, rope, fabric and a selection of clothing in different shapes, sizes and colours (see box). The addition of socks in various sizes, colours and patterns enabled the children to explore categorisation.

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