Following on from a really useful thread about 'Tuff Spots' that gave lots of ideas thought I'd ask you all what is in your Sand tray this week?

We've had the
buckets and spades
letters
small moulds

Any ideas?

Smooth pebbles
Sieves
Sand wheels
Containers with srew lids
Cardboard tubes (kitchen roll middles)
Digger and Dumper trucks
Rake

Shells and paint brushes
Small pots and lids
Diggers

Our children had a whale of a time with small plastic spiders in the sand for Halloween!

We have had dinosaurs and sieves

Metal stuff to find with magnets! This has been inspired by hide and seek interest of the kids and also being given a metal detector by our LEA.

Did you know ... that if you take a magnet to the beach, it will pick up the tiny magnetic particles that are present in all beach sand.

We hide the childrens name lables in there, only a couple at a time, or maybe some numbers ect...

socks and silver spoons! children loved filling them up and handling them as they got heavier and longer- really good psrn activity in the end with a bit of lsl thrown in.

we had dry sand , dried peas and small red lentils, sieves / colanders with holes of different sizes - this allowed children to sieve out the dried peas then the red lentils leaving just the sand

In the wet sand we've had trowels, small rakes, large wooden lolly sticks and rubber tipped 'writing' implements.

Wet sand with: Cups, saucers and jugs.

Playdough cutters.

'Landscape' ie plastic trees, fences etc and animals

Ice cube trays from IKEA

Plastic cars

Treasure and flags or flag making equipment (looly sticks, glue and pens)

Dry sand with: water wheels

fishing nets and numbers / letters / key words

Ours has been a construction site....so bricks, spades, trowels, buckets...

We have had no sand, porriage oats instead. Lots of cooking equipment and porriage recipe cards, laminated and held together with a treasury tag. (Sparklebox). The children have loved 'reading' the cards and cooking for the schools teddy bears, (yes we have had bears visiting the sand pit and they are rather covered in porridge so I will have some washing to do but worth it).
Ps This is a reception class

We've put glitter in our sand this week !

The children have loved it, they have been using the sieves to try and get the glitter out.

We have had most of the things mentioned in this thread in the sand, but not tried socks before !

The children do like collecting the pine cones from outside and adding them to the sand.

Motherclangerx

A spider.

He had built a lovely web and we watched him for ages repairing the bits we broke when we lifted the lid off. It was really refreshing to be enjoying one instead of stressing about someone getting rid of it

potatoes and carrots

Doing what? Growing?

no, our children particularly like transporting. so we had the sand and water tray outside and they were enjoying making 'mud' then washing the veg and moving it about in baskets.
they also enjoyed eating the carrots :-)
was real good fun.

loads of rain water

Jeanine, that sounds fab!

I've done the harvesting and washing them but never though of making them dirty all over again. I must start a folder of really good ideas from this forum because I'm sure I forget loads of brilliant activities that I've seen on here!