Building Houses!

Over the last couple of weeks, the pre-school children have really engaged themselves in imaginative construction play and have spent a lot of time playing in their new construction area where they have the opportunity to dress up as builders and have their own tool sets to aid their play and build on their imagination. One of their favourite tasks is fixing the tree house. Otto and Sebastian offered tools out to their friends, with Otto offering the drill to Oliver whilst Sebastian shared his saw. Otto gathered his friends, “Come on guys, we need to fix the tree house, it’s fallen down again!”. Together the children worked hard to hammer, drill, saw and even used the rulers to make sure everything was at the right height. After measuring up, Tom suggested, “Maybe it needs to be a bit taller? Or shorter?” Otto laughed and replied, “Definitely taller, it needs to be 100 taller”. Oliver giggled and replied, “That’s too tall for me!”.

Following up from this, the children have also enjoyed designing and building their own houses using the wooden blocks. Sophie and India gathered all the blocks that they would need and Flo got going by putting the bottom base down, telling her friends, “We need to make the bottom bit strong so it can hold the house together”. Sophie reassured Flo, “That’s a good idea!”. Once they had the base down, the children all worked very well together to build up and once satisfied the house was tall enough, it was time to put the roof on. Finley, Margot and Sadie helped each other unravel the blanket to cover to whole house. The children collected some cushions and stories and took it in turns to read to their friends.