A pre-school child’s question about the purpose of a piece of plastic hosing led to children exploring tubes and pipes in various forms for many days at Little Adventurers Nursery in Upminster, Essex.
‘I totally believe that everything is a learning opportunity for young children, so when the question was asked, we discussed pipes and tubes and looked at how water runs through them,’ says nursery manager Ginny Andreas. ‘The children decided to hunt around the nursery and fill the water tray with all the tubes they could find.’
This led to them locating various tubes, including recycled plastic tubing and an old hose from a vacuum cleaner. The children gathered them together and attached the tubes to the tap, hunting for a variety of containers, ranging from role-play cups to a bucket, and worked together to fill them up.
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