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Enabling Environments: Making Spaces...Sand & Water Play

A shortage of sand and water for play can cause squabbles. Anne O'Connor advises on creative ways of providing this popular resource.

We are a packaway group running three days a week in a church hall with a small yard for outdoor play. Sand and water play is a big issue for us, as we have to be very careful about mess and water damage. We have one small tray, in which we alternate sand and water from week to week, but we know this isn't enough. The children squabble over it and the quality of sustained play is poor. We need ideas to provide more of the right experiences, despite the limitations of our setting.

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