Small World Play: Construction Site

The boys have a keen interest in all things transport at the moment and I have been trying to offer activities which spark their imagination and small world play is a great way to do this. Last week I set up the water tray with a selection of different sized beans and stones then placed some of the children’s diggers and construction vehicles inside.

 

I poured the beans and stones into different areas in the tray to help initiate conversation on the size of the different resources.

The boys started off loading up the trucks with the beans and then emptying them again. They then went on to load up the trucks and move it up or down the ramp to a different levels before emptying it again. It didn’t take long for the contents to get mixed up but we had fun sorting it back into it’s different sizes and counting the stones