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Nursery activities: Outdoors - Creative play

Practice
The flexible and spontaneous nature of outdoor play offers superb ways to encourage children's exuberance and inventiveness.

Possibilities for being active, noisy, multi-sensory and messy support the way young children like to play creatively and there is room for movement and large-scale working.

Resources

3Rainwear as protective clothing 3Trolleys, tool boxes and tubs 3Pegs, tape and string 3Fences, mesh, trellis 3Plastic sheeting, shower curtains, cotton sheets 3Large cardboard boxes, wallpaper lining rolls 3Chalks, charcoal, pencils, crayons, big felt pens, clipboards 3Thick and thin paint in bottles for squirting and spraying 3A wide range of brushes, sponges, kitchen utensils 3Ribbons, rope, strips of colourful carrier bags 3Lengths of colourful and shiny fabrics 3Tinsel and garlands 3Old CDs, beads, shells and shiny or attractive items 3Cameras by Frederick Leo Leonni (Hodder and Stoughton) 3Angel pavement by Quentin Blake (Red Fox)

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