Relax and enjoy outdoors
Enjoy the outdoors as a fun activity with your early years children.
Pack food, cuddle up on a blanket outside and read a book with your children or tell a story.
You could also play teddy bears' picnic. Instructions below.
Safety: Please protect yourself and your children from the sun. Wear a hat and use sun cream.
How to make healthy ice lollies
- Blend fruit like banana and strawberries and pour into a plastic cup. You can also use a mix of water and juice.
- Add bits of real fruit or fresh mint too if you like (optional).
- Add a lolly stick and put in the freezer for 3 hours or overnight.
How to play teddy bears' picnic
Children will love taking their favourite toys outside and playing pretend picnics with them.
- Help them lay out a blanket for their toys.
- Give them some old, clean food containers so they can pretend to feed them.
- Use things like grass, leaves and mud as pretend food for their toys.
What is my child learning?
Communication and language development:
- Playing pretend with natural objects e.g. ‘This lot of grass is my spaghetti’
- Listening to the noises adults make when they read stories
Personal, social and emotional development
- Exploring new things and environments, while checking in regularly with familiar adults
Physical development
- Being active outside and using their bodies to move freely
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