Outdoor play is such an important part of our day here at Jollies and we like to make the most of our very large, and very exciting, environment…whatever the weather!!
From knights fighting dragons between forts and castles, role-playing and dining in style in our mini kitchen, sitting and sharing a story with a puppet and a friend, to playing in the sandpit under our canopy!
In the soft area we also have cars and ramps a plenty, a climbing frame and slide to challenge our skills, water trays to splash around in, fences to make marks upon and super hero capes to don! Not to mention all manner of cars, bikes, scooters and trikes to zoom around on and if there’s ever an obstacle course to tackle or a race to be run there are even medals and trophies to celebrate our achievements together!
In our garden we have a huge decked area to climb and slide and relax on, our ‘all year round’ grass houses construction sets, crates, wheels, slides, spinners to mention but a few things.
In our barked area there’s a stage to perform on, fairy gardens to imagine with, dinosaurs to STOMP and logs and tyres to challenge our balancing and climbing skills.
Then we have a mud kitchen to create feasts in, a building site to transport stones around and measure, weigh and construct with and a HUGE sandpit where we can imagine we are at the beach and did we mention we have a ‘smelly garden’ too with plants to pick to feed to the dinosaurs and also to enhance our potions and concoctions within the mud kitchen?!?!
Gosh, we’re exhausted just describing it all, but our children are always soooooo very excited when they play out there daily as these carefully planned learning environments fire their imaginations as they play happily and explore together in the great outdoors!! Xxxx
