Our Brand New Construction Area At Daisykins Nursery
Children develop their building skills in the new outdoor construction area
Outdoor play is a very important aspect of promoting learning and development, and Daisykins Nursery in Rugby try wherever possible to make outdoor learning new and exciting. Kelly, Daisykins Nursery Manager, has been working hard to create a new construction area outdoors.
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The new construction area has been created in a sheltered area of the garden meaning the children can access outdoor play regardless of the weather. Outdoor play at Daisykins happens every day so having a sheltered area will mean the children can spend longer periods of times outdoors even in wet weather and remain dry and sheltered from any winds.
The construction area contains a variety of your typical construction toys such as plastic JCB trucks, diggers and cranes and then lots of loose parts to fit in with the D
Some of the loose parts resources include tyres, planks, Rubber bricks and gravel. These are all resources which the children can use to construct in various different ways. They offer more freedom to play than your typical construction resources such as Duplo bricks. These resources also allow children to explore their schemas (patterns of play and behaviour), characteristics of effective learning (what motivates children to learn) and various areas of the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS)
The children have had great fun creating obstacle courses, digging and transporting with the diggers and cranes, building their very own brick walls and enclosures and making ramps and tracks with the tyres and planks.
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This type of large scale play is very effective in allowing children to use their imaginative skills and to really critically think about how they will achieve their desired plans. It also allows the children to construct, play and move in ways they would not be able to do within the confines in the nursery rooms or with the restrictions that many of your plastic small scale building toys have.
So far the area has been well explored by the children with many of them claiming their new construction area is ‘Cool’. It will be great to see how the children's constructions change and develop as they become more familiar with the larger resources.