Providing resources that offer children challenging opportunities to build secret places will support schematic ideas about containing and enveloping and help children develop learning across the curriculum.
Child-initiated learning
Large construction areas
Continuous provision
Large cardboard boxes ,large box, play tunnel, tents ,box of drapes ,good selection of found materials in different shapes and sizes, such as boxes, crates, planks, carpet rolls, tyres and cones ,clothes airers ,large golf umbrellas ,resources for fastening and connecting such as pegs, large bulldog clips, string, rope and tape ,carpet tiles, mats, rugs ,mark-making materials 3role-play additions such as telephones, tea sets and camping equipment
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