Nursery World - Learning and Development: Homes

A project on houses came close to home when nursery children got to make their own real bricks. Teacher Judith Cowley describes how.

The highlight of our focus on 'houses and homes' was making real building bricks. It came about because I knew someone who worked in a local brick factory and he agreed to come into nursery to show the children the moulding process.

During his visit, Peter Marshall showed the children how to shape the clay and 'throw' it into a brick mould, which had sand in the bottom. Each child moulded and engraved their name in a brick, which was then taken off for firing.

When Peter came back with the fired bricks, he showed the children how to build a wall - how the bricks needed to be layered and fixed with cement, and not simply stacked one on top of the other.

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