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Busy learning in the sandpit
Children love to play in the sand pit or at the beach. They dig, build castles, bury toys, drive trucks, mix sand with water, sift sand through a funnel, and any number of other imaginative sand-play activities they can think up. Playing in the sand is a super-tactile, full-body experience for children that gives them wonderful opportunities for fun, learning, and sensory input. Plus, children or all ages love being in the sand pit, particularly with their friends, as it's a wonderful place for cooperative play and socialisation.
Playing in a sand pit is a great way for children to build a number of different skills, both physical and social. Sand play is very tactile, and helps children learn about textures and develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination.
- Communicating with other children, describing play activities, listening.
- Moulding shapes and objects, making patterns, raking, drawing designs in the sand with a stick, building roads and play spaces for trucks and toys.
- Playing and working with other children, sharing play spaces, watching others playing and joining their play, problem-solving.
- Developing sense of touch through feeling the different textures of sand (dry, damp, wet), moulding sand into shapes, burying themselves or objects in the sand and feeling them through the layers of sand.