Outdoor Sand and Water Areas

An effective ‘Sand and Water Area’ would include many features. This should be:

• Positioned in a place which takes into account Health and Safety aspects
• Attractive, inviting and suitably resourced
• Contain a range of continuous provision which is well-labelled and easily accessible for all children
• Offer space near it for the children to have room to expand and explore
• Be enhanced with provision such as small world objects, images around themes and sand and water books
• Be linked to investigations, where appropriate
• Different outdoors to indoors. Outdoors presents opportunities to work at a larger scale and make more mess Regularly enhanced according to interests, possible themes and on-going observations.

Exploring Water Movement White House Farm Day Nursery, Sedgebrook	Working together as a team Lincolnshire Montessori, Caistor
An Alternative Source of Water Little Learners Nursery School, Skegness	A Small Digging Pit Surrounded by Submerged Tyres Tree House Children's Centre, East Kirkby
Experimenting with the use of Guttering, Boxes, Buckets and Tuff Spots. Wragby Pre-School	Using Tables alongside Sand Trays Wragby Pre-School
Outdoor Water Provision Maple Street Day Nursery, Lincoln	Using a Shower Tray with Downpipes for Water Play The Village Kindergarten, Brant Broughton
Exploring Wet Sand Wragby Pre-School	Outdoor Sand and Water Provision Storage Town & Country Kiddies, Market Rasen
An Enhanced Digging Pit Butterwick Pre-School Playgroup