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Puddle painting: Create beautiful art outside

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

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...Introduction This activity is a great opportunity for some outdoor creativity exploration. Children can create beautiful artwork using food colouring and puddles. Talk to them about the different colours they can see and watch them swirl...

Spray away: Using hand sprays

Sally Featherstone

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Phill Featherstone

Activity

...Introduction Using sprays will strengthen fingers, hands and wrists. It is fun too!What you need Some small spray bottles (make sure they are easy to squeeze and check that the trigger isn't too far away for small hands to grip and squeeze)...

Float and Sink (Spring): An idea for being outside in all weathers

Sally Featherstone

Activity

...What you need a bowl or bath on a table, a water trolley or deepish puddle collected rain or tap water a basket of items to experiment with. Some ideas – corks, plastic bottles with tops, stones and pebbles, leaves, wooden and plastic...

Full And Empty (Water): An idea using sand and water

Sally Featherstone

Activity

...What you need a water tray, bath or other receptacle a board or bath rack at one end will make a shelf to put things on whiteboards and clipboards and pens spoons scoops jugs cups and mugs plastic bottles in various sizes (try to get some...

It's Raining (Water): An idea using sand and water

Sally Featherstone

Activity

...What you need umbrellas (different sizes, colours and types) wellington boots raincoats pop-up tents and tunnels plastic bottles and funnels for rain gauges sieves, colanders and nets clear plastic sheeting to make shelters mirrors...

Wet Clay Play: An idea using clay and malleable materials

Lorraine Frankish

Activity

...What you need a bag of clay a large tray, a baby bath or a water trolley small plastic jugs, bottles and hand sprays newspaper or a supply of old towels.Helpful hints This activity is much better done outdoors – then the children can really...

Fish It Out: An idea for maths outdoors

Terry Gould

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...Focus To fish out numbered balls and identify them To make larger numbers by adding the numbers on the balls togetherWhat you need 5–20 small plastic balls child-sized fishing nets a water trough or builder’s tray a black or blue permanent...

Money Grabber: An idea for maths outdoors

Terry Gould

Activity

...Focus To listen to instructions and use hand-eye coordination to fish out items from a water trayWhat you need 2 similar sized water trays a sand or wind-up timer an eye mask (soft elasticated material) up to 10 small waterproof sacks...

Ice Pendants: An idea using free and found objects

Julie Mountain

Activity

...What are they learning? Understanding the natural world; creative expressionWhat you need Containers, such as lids from margarine or ice cream tubs, shallow dishes or baking trays – these should be between 1cm and 3cm deep Water...

Water Meters: An idea for measures

Carole Skinner

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Judith Stevens

Activity

...What are they learning? Measures – distance; finding ways to solve problemsWhat you need A selection of empty small water bottles with small holes in their lids Jugs WaterWhat you do Fill the water bottles and put the lids on. Carrying one...