Nursery World - Broad sheets

Continuing his series looking at how to have creative fun without expensive materials, Philip Waters suggests some activities with sheets if it were 31 October and I said we were going to look at some activities involving bed sheets, no doubt the images conjured in your mind would be children running about dressed as spooks and ghouls. This, I suspect, would be followed with a more traditional use for the bed sheet, namely sleep.

if it were 31 October and I said we were going to look at some activities involving bed sheets, no doubt the images conjured in your mind would be children running about dressed as spooks and ghouls. This, I suspect, would be followed with a more traditional use for the bed sheet, namely sleep.

However, the humble bed sheet has many uses within children's play and here we are going to explore some of them - there's no time for snoozing!

Den building

You will need:

* One (maybe more) large bed sheets , String or rope , Furniture or fixed equipment if indoors , Fixed equipment or tree if outdoors

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