Creating with Nature & Muddy Cooking!

Over the last couple of weeks, the preschool children have been engaging in lots of wet play activities in the rainy weather. The children loved collecting the rain water using many containers including cake tins, jugs, muffin cases and saucepans. The children were using the rain water they had collected as one of their ingredients whilst role playing in the mud kitchen to make various food items, with mud pie being a clear favourite! Whilst some of the children got to work, being imaginative to make food for their friends and teachers, some of the other children got stuck in to sitting on the ground, collecting as much water as they possibly could from the puddles that had formed and filling up the containers for their friends to use whilst cooking. Some of the other children were engaged in a water tray activity, using the spades to transfer the water from the bottom of the water tray, back up to the top, watching almost in amazement as the water was flowing down the levels of the water tray. The children also enjoyed floating paper boats in puddles and the water tray, discussing between themselves when they thought that the boat was able to float and when they thought it would sink. 

The preschool children have continued to be creative and enjoyed some lovely walks around the nursery grounds, collecting various natural objects such as leaves, sticks and pine cones. The children used these items to create some nature pictures to help finish the nature winter display board in the preschool room. Some of the children also showed a lot of excitement whilst playing at the arctic animals crazy foam set up, digging deep and counting how many animals they could find - whilst others chose to use some play dough to design their own 3D versions of sea and arctic animals and showing each other with pride what they had created!