Nursery World - EYFS Activities: We’ve explored… campfires

How one setting’s use of open-ended resources outdoors led to the recreation of a campfire. By Annette Rawstrone

Recreating a campfire in a tyre with sticks and tissue paper

Adesire to extend how children use the outdoor area at Harlow Day Nursery and Pre-school in Essex, part of Kindred Nurseries, led to children collecting natural resources and building a pretend campfire.

Unfortunately, actual fires are not permitted in the nursery’s outdoor area, but the ‘campfire’ still captured the children’s imagination and the nursery team were able to extend children’s understanding of how to create and stay safe around fire.

It is hoped that some parents will be able to extend the children’s explorations by taking their children camping or enabling them to experience the heat, colours, sound and excitement of a real fire.

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