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Easter tub exploration…the children’s way!

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Last week, I added sticks and playdough to our Easter sensory tub.

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I thought maybe we could make Easter nests…….the children however, had other plans!
This didn’t mean though that they weren’t learning.

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At first they were fascinated with combining the rice and playdough.  They pushed, prodded

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and rolled. (strengthening muscles)

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They filled the eggs with the playdough (learning about capacity)…

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…and the playdough with rice (more capacity!)

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They added feathers to their playdough & rice….

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…and sticks (following their interests and building on their knowledge that different resources could be combined)

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They then became fascinated with transferring the rice to the tray on the floor.  I put it there because the one year old had enjoyed dropping handfuls of rice on the floor the previous day!

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After transferring with their hands, they then used the eggs to transfer (building on existing knowledge that eggs could be filled)

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and then the brush (exploring and experimenting)

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Of course a tray on the floor has to be stood in!

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After their experimenting with moving the rice with their hands, they tried their feet!

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So much exploration, but this was my favourite part of the activity.K is just over 2. I watched as he carefully laid the sticks on top of the playdough. 

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He then focused on pushing the sticks into either side of the dough.

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After he had added several sticks, he sat back and announced ‘a spider!’
Now I don’t think that he had planned on making a spider when he started out adding the sticks (could be wrong though!), but what was brilliant for me was that he could see the similarities between what he had created and a spider.  He received no prompting to make this connection and there was nothing on the table to encourage this.  It had come purely from his imagination 🙂

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