We’ve had some fantastic weather in England this week. After weeks of cold weather this meant only one thing, water play!
I put aside my planning and set this up for the children instead. We needed to make the most of the good weather, you never know how long it will last in England!
They posted objects through the tube, watching and expecting them to re-appear and then problem solving on occasions when they became stuck!
They experimented with rolling an assortment of objects down the guttering….
…which at one point became a slide for the playmobil people
The hose pipe proved to be so popular that we had the opportunity to practise our turn-taking skills 🙂 Some of us did find this quite a challenge!
However, to keep the peace we managed to find a compromise and the person with the hose pipe, filled up containers for the others.
Swapping over!
The children also practised their hand eye coordination, scooping the ping pong balls with the nets, (unfortunately this was the best photo I had of this!)
And then emptying them back out.
Coordinating the different parts of their body and strengthening muscles as they tried to lift the cylinder and turn it over to empty the water out.
success!
They practised counting, rolling one,
then two,
three,
and four balls down the slope!
They practised their pincer grip, trying to get the butterfly confetti out of the water.
Did a bit of experimenting with floating and sinking after noticing that the ping pong balls didn’t sink like the butterflies.
They incorporated the small world figures into their play, making boats for the playmobil people with the bilibos.
Playmobil figure making a call on the mobile!
More hand-eye coordination practise.
Getting better!
Some role-play, bathing the dolls.
Exploring the sponges, these proved to be fascinating.
Exploring the water with their whole body.
More role-play, this time we added our tea set to play.
Working out how things open and shut….
…how parts fit back together…
….practising pouring..
…which can be quite tricky!
Of course when the older children came home from school, play got a whole lot wetter!
Fingers crossed for some more great weather next week!
