Sand Play Area - EYFS / Early Years Activities, Displays and Ideas
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Free Sample Resources
Featured Sand Play Continuous Provision
‘Sand Play’ Printable Provision Resources - including ‘Dino Dig’ theme and ‘Alphabet’ and ‘Number’ treasure hunt cards
Related Theme & Project Planning Support
General ‘Outdoor Area’ resources
Additional ‘Outdoor Area’ Pages
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Free Sand Play Resources
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Featured Sand Play Continuous Provision
‘Sand Play’ Printable Provision Resources
- General
- ‘Dino Dig’ theme
More ‘Alphabet’ cards you may like to hide in your sand tray for children to discover here.
(Remember, when printing you can usually choose to print for example 2 pages on 1 sheet, which will make smaller versions of any cards/posters/puzzles etc on our site!)
‘Dinosaur’ themed alphabet cards
Why not cut and laminate one of our number slice puzzles and hide it in your sand tray? Children will love to explore to find the pieces and problem solve to put the puzzle back together again. What have they found? Why not add an additional challenge by adding pieces to more than one puzzle?
Animal Number Slice Puzzles (1-5 & 1-10)
Equally, children can search for parts of our number & counting puzzle pairs. Can they find the correct matches? If your children require a further challenge, encourage them place the puzzles in order to create a number line on the ground.
‘Butterfly’ themed Minibeasts counting Puzzles
Related Theme & Project Planning Support
A high-impact, play-rich mini-project that uses water as the vehicle for developing physical control, early maths (capacity), schema play and simple scientific thinking.
A toddler project planner supporting sensory, physical and schema-rich learning through summer play.
A two-week, low-prep mini theme designed to spark curiosity, investigation and imaginative thinking through play.
A six-week, sensory-rich curriculum theme exploring water, movement and environmental care (Commonly used in Summer 2)
A two-week, low-prep mini theme designed to enrich provision and respond to children’s emerging interests.
General ‘Outdoor Area’ resources you may be interested in…
Additional ‘Outdoor Area’ pages…
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Encourage curiosity, creativity and problem-solving with our wonderful Outdoor Sand Play Challenge Cards!
These engaging printable challenge cards help transform your outdoor sand area into a rich environment for exploration, investigation and imaginative play. Each…