Nursery World - Foam shapes

Staff at Dunchurch Nursery near Rugby, Warwickshire, developed a shaving foam activity to extend children's awareness of shape Playing with shaving foam is a long-standing favourite with our nursery children. Their enjoyment is apparent by the expressions on their faces as they cover their hands with foam and create satisfying swirling patterns across the surface of the table.

Playing with shaving foam is a long-standing favourite with our nursery children. Their enjoyment is apparent by the expressions on their faces as they cover their hands with foam and create satisfying swirling patterns across the surface of the table.

After observing the children's enthusiasm we realised that we could extend the learning potential of this activity to promote several early learning goals. Our current topic was 'shapes', so we discussed how we might extend children's awareness of two-dimensional shapes using shaving foam.

We put some flat plastic shapes into a small basket in the centre of a table, and a member of staff sprayed a different shape in each of the four places using shaving foam.

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