Imaginative Outside Play!

The preschool children have really engaged themselves in some imaginative play this week. They worked very well together outside in the garden to build a house with the large wooden blocks. This was instigated after the children had a group story time with the book ‘Room on the broom’. Finley had gathered some of his friends around on the decking area, asking them, “Would anyone like to help me build a house for the dragon?”. This instantly piqued the interest of quite a few of his friends who rushed over to help. Alfie collected some of the larger blocks and explained, “These blocks can be the bottom of the house so it doesn’t wobble too much”. His friends clearly agreed with this idea as they started to place the largest blocks around the bottom of their house. Rowan had carefully filled up a spade, which he brought over and placed on top of one of the blocks. When he noticed that Finley was looking at him inquisitively but Rowan reassured him, “It’s the cement so the blocks can stick together”. Once the children were happy that their house was built high enough so that, “The dragon couldn’t escape” as Tom suggested, they went on to place some logs inside their house and Alfie said, “I know! We can have a camp fire”.

Zack used the new guttering to collect and place them all on top of the house. After positioning them all in place, he then found a ball and tried to place it through the end of the guttering. He very quickly realised that the ball was too big to fit so went off to find a smaller ball. He brought back 3 different sized balls and him and Ellie set to work finding out which ball could fit through each tube. Max came over to join in with their play, asking, “What are you playing?”. When the balls were rolling out of the guttering and away from their house, the children were really laughing together and cheering each other on to collect the balls again.