Outdoor Classroom

See how I transformed under neath my deck into a beautiful outdoor room. This DIY inexpensive transformation is easy to copy.

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This February half term I was lucky enough to be invited to go out to Brunei and work with the team at Hornbill School. The school caters for both Nepali children of Gurkha soldiers and children of…

Learn how to install shade sails! Installing shade sails can add shade and cover to your backyard patio or pool space from the sun!

Bamboo parts added by Nancy in 2013, Electrical spools added by Emma in 2014 - Bamboo and spools meet.... and get along nicely! :)

“Daily exposure to the outdoors stimulates the brain in many ways: (1) There are no expectations. Children are forced to use their imagination in order for that stick, rock or pinecone to bec…

More than a mud kitchen... production line/ball run/role play......imaginative play..... a million ideas !!!!

A blog about preschool, play, early childhood education, learning outdoors, play outdoors, children and nature, play activities, kindergarten

We are in the final design stages for our natural playground. It is very exciting. One of the areas that we have wanted to create is a loose parts area. Since the new playground planning is taking longer than expected, we decided not to wait on this area. It will be housed in a different section of the playground in the new design, but it is already a huge hit. What we did to create it is build upon what we already had on our playground. We have a collection of large PVC pipes of different…

A great transformation of a small space

A play space with children running along paths

Using Loose parts to build a rocket at Chadwell Preschool (The joys of open ended resources)

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Ask anyone over 30 to recount their most treasured memories of childhood play, and few will be indoors. Independent play, outdoors, and varied, is what we remember. As things stand,…