Contents |
The value of outdoor play | 5 |
Best practice | 8 |
Planning for outdoor play | 10 |
Supporting outdoor play | 16 |
Resources to support outdoor play | 22 |
An outdoor curriculum based around story books | 29 |
OUTDOOR PLAY ACTIVITIES TO SUPPORT EYLF LEARNING OUTCOMES |
Learning Outcome 1 – Identity | 32 |
Outdoor art gallery, Stations, Make a bridge, Soapy Sand |
Learning Outcome 2 – Community | 34 |
What am I, Changing seats, Water chain, Blindfolded walk, Wheelchair play, Bug/minibeast hunt, Photos hide and seek, Snapshot, Planting seeds, Sounds, Painters and decorators, Runaround possum |
Learning Outcome 3 – Wellbeing | 40 |
Desert island scenario, The dressing up game, The circus comes to town, Messages, Scavengers, Parachute games, Aiming and throwing, Threading, Streamer, Vehicles |
Learning Outcome 4 – Learning | 46 |
In the pond, Kim’s game with a difference!, Weather watch, Make a go-kart, Cardboard box city, Planks crates and tyres, Make a miniature garden, Clay modelling, Texture rubbing, Smelly boxes, Making M |
Learning Outcome 5 – Communication | 53 |
Letter hunt, Writing in mud/sand, Magic carpet journey, Message in a bottle, Letter from a lost teddy, The rope walk, Stepping stones, The old woman who lived in a shoe, The circle game, Treasure hunt |
Further reading | 60 |