I am doing my dissertation about practitioners' views on outdoor play.What I would like are a wider range of opinions as to why people do notdo outdoor play. What are the top three reasons? Are they the weather,safety, parents? All of these are given as reasons in my setting, butjust how typical is this? - Lillybelle - Outdoor play
Where there's a will, there's a way. From my experience, more often thannot it's the particular member of staff who is using the weather as anexcuse. In my present setting we are outdoors regardless of the weather.The two-year-olds love it as much when its pouring and they are gettingsoaked and mucky in puddles, as when it's a sunny day and they areplaying in the sandpit.
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