Play Based Learning This Easter

With Easter upon us shortly it's easy to get back into the habit of dressing each area of provision for the celebration. 

Instead focus on leaving a few hooks in your adult initiated sessions that will grab your children's interest and lead them curious to know more. It could be sharing an Easter story for instance and then having one or two areas of your provision with provocations in linked to this. This then invites the child to explore and learn more. It also means that children that don't want to explore this can still head into the areas of provision to develop their own lines of enquiry or take the lead on their own child led play. 

Taking this approach also frees you as an adult up from spending so much time filling every area of provision with resources and instead can really prioritise your time and focus your efforts on the things that will make the biggest impact. 

With this in mind I wanted to take the opportunity to share some of the provocations and hooks that I have done during my time teaching in the early years. Remember I didn't do all of these in the same year but hopefully they will inspire you.

Clay Eggs

Creating an Easter Garden

Natural Loose Parts on a Leaf 

Egg Counting and Sorting

 Bunny Biscuit Baking

 Open Ended Maths Game

Small World Play

 Spring Nature Walk

Easter Reading