Today a variety of natural resources were provided on the deck along with two Fairy books for provocation. Louise and Sacha, Celeste, Evie worked really hard designing and creating their own fairy houses. This required some quite complex thinking and problem solving around the construction but the results were awesome. Louise's construction was in the shape of a cube while Sacha's was more like a teepee. Each house was original in design with a variety of special features such as a ladder, TV, a window and even a hanging light. The children's eye hand co-ordination was challenged as they held resources in place while using the glue gun at the same time. Once the children had finished their creations they put them on the grass topped table where their fairy friends were waiting.
It was interesting to see that some children were only interested in creating the fairy houses and happily left them on the table for others to play with. Other children, like Taylor were only interested in playing with the fairies and houses that others had made while Evie and Louise did both.
Evie and Taylor played together for a long time with the children's creations and the fairies, role playing Elsa and Anna, the characters from Frozen using their imaginations and memory recall in their play.
The use of natural resources supports our involvement in Enviroschoools as well as our Nature Discovery programme and provided children with a variety of opportunities to extend their learning depending on individual interests and strengths.
Written by Dianne
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