Large sand pit

[Moorside]

Looking for some advice and inspiration. Over the summer we have had a large 3m square outdoor sandpit installed. I haven't ever had the luxury of such a fantastic resource. I want to set up some resources that the children can access to use in the sandpit and I was wondering what other people have found their children particularly enjoy. Also any great ideas for challenges or activities would be great. Think the brain has slowed over the summer! Thanks!

[Fredbear]

If you can a pulley with buckets,pebbles, access to water. Ooh I am so envious would love one of those. But alas a pack away setting so never going to happen. Enjoy.

Have a look on Pen Green site if you can it might inspire you.

[Guest]

we have a resource trolley filled with the usual sand toys but tend to add as and when childrens interests happen, so we might put the dinosaurs in, or build a pool and add pirates, or diggers and wooden blocks, in fact any small world resources. We also have things like metal detectors or fossils which are not freely available but can be planned in as part of CP. We have added small tents (like the shelters fishermen use) and have 'camped' or have covered it in a sheet and played a huge kims game with the children crawling underneath to remove an object or we sit on top and guess what the things under are by touch. We have added pots of paint and 'coloured' in our sand models or put cooking utensils and a toy kitchen playcentre/ table and chairs and used it for role play (useful precurser to the introduction of the mud kitchen

[Moorside]

Thanks Max love the idea of kims game and using as role play. We have a mud kitchen so was looking for different things to offer in sand box these are great!

 

Thanks

[finleysmaid]

nice little link here....

 

 

http://theimaginationtree.com/2012/09/sand-play-ideas-with-loose-parts.html

[Moorside]

Thanks another good link, brain started to function again slowly but surely!