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Enabling Environments: On the beach
Nursery World,
26 June 2008
You don't need to be near water to give children an outdoor area that offers rich play and learning opportunities with sand, says Jan White.
The beach is the environment with most play value for children, so no wonder it's a favourite place to visit! Sand itself is a magical, entrancing and therapeutic substance. The full menu of sand, water, shells, pebbles, plant material, the open sky and weather creates endless possibilities for the combination and interaction of materials. Children can explore, discover, modify, experiment, build and imagine. Creating a beach-like sand area in your outdoor space will introduce a...
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